On the sacred in African literature : old gods and new worlds / Mark Mathuray.
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TextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: viii, 205 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780230577558 (alk. paper)
- 0230577555 (alk. paper)
- African literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Holy, The, in literature
- Myth in literature
- Religion in literature
- Culture in literature
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Africa -- In literature
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- PR9340.5 .M37 2009
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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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