TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathuray,Mark
TI  - On the sacred in African literature: old gods and new worlds 
SN  - 9780230577558 (alk. paper)
AV  - PR9340.5 .M37 2009
U1  - 820.9/382 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Basingstoke [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Holy, The, in literature
KW  - Myth in literature
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Culture in literature
KW  - Magic realism (Literature)
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -