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On the sacred in African literature : old gods and new worlds / Mark Mathuray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: viii, 205 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230577558 (alk. paper)
  • 0230577555 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/382 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9340.5 .M37 2009
Contents:
Realising the sacred : Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god -- Dramatising the sacred : Wole Soyinka's "the fourth stage" and Kongi's harvest -- Politicising the sacred : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between -- Sacred realism : Ben Okri's The famished road -- The stalled sublime : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Conclusion : the political as tragic effect.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Realising the sacred : Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god -- Dramatising the sacred : Wole Soyinka's "the fourth stage" and Kongi's harvest -- Politicising the sacred : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between -- Sacred realism : Ben Okri's The famished road -- The stalled sublime : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Conclusion : the political as tragic effect.

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