On the sacred in African literature
Subtitle: old gods and new worlds
By: Mark Mathuray.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230577558
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Realising the sacred: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god; title: Dramatising the sacred: Wole Soyinka's "the fourth stage" and Kongi's harvest; title: Politicising the sacred: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between; title: Sacred realism: Ben Okri's The famished road; title: The stalled sublime: J.M. Coetzee's Foe; title: Conclusion: the political as tragic effect.