On the Sacred in African Literature
eBook - PDF

On the Sacred in African Literature

Old Gods and New Worlds

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On the Sacred in African Literature

Old Gods and New Worlds

About this book

This innovativebook provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. I Directions
  6. 1 Realising the Sacred:Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
  7. 2 Dramatising the Sacred:Wole Soyinka’s ā€˜The Fourth Stage’and Kongi’s Harvest
  8. 3 Politicising the Sacred:Ngugi wa Thiong’o’sThe River Between
  9. II Indirections
  10. 4 Sacred Realism: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
  11. 5 The Stalled Sublime: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
  12. Conclusion: The Political as Tragic Effect
  13. Notes
  14. Works Cited
  15. Index
  16. Contents
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Introduction
  19. I Directions
  20. 1 Realising the Sacred:Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
  21. 2 Dramatising the Sacred:Wole Soyinka’s ā€˜The Fourth Stage’and Kongi’s Harvest
  22. 3 Politicising the Sacred:Ngugi wa Thiong’o’sThe River Between
  23. II Indirections
  24. 4 Sacred Realism: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
  25. 5 The Stalled Sublime: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
  26. Conclusion: The Political as Tragic Effect
  27. Notes
  28. Works Cited
  29. Index
  30. Contents