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|aMathuray, Mark,|d1972-
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|aOn the sacred in African literature|h[electronic resource] :|bold gods and new worlds /|cMarkMathuray.
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|aBasingstoke [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aviii, 205 p. ;|c23 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aRealising 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 -- Sacredrealism : Ben Okri's The famished road -- The stalled sublime : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Conclusion : the political as tragic effect.
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|aThe representation of myth, ritual and magic are important elements of African cultural production. Within African literary criticism, the distinctiveness of the African text, its distance fromor subversion ofEuropean literary forms, is elaborated and celebrated through analyzing its appropriation of myth and ritual. This innovative and challengingbook seeks not so much to dislodge myth, ritual, animism and other such terms from their place in critical discourse so much as to subsume them within the broader, more critically productive category of the sacred. Although an important idea in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and history (specifically, the history of religion), the sacred, surprisingly, has not been explored in relation to African literature.The sacred emerges in this ambitious book as a cognitive-cultural schema, in the Kantian sense, which is central to understanding social and political structures, religious and philosophical ideas and practices, and cultural production of much traditional African society. It argues that the persistence of the sacred in contemporary African society structures and determines African literary production in ways which both enable and delimit epistemological concerns and political possibilities. Oneof the book's important critical strategies is to bridge the seemingly unbridgeable gap between African and Western systems of thought and literary practices, instated by colonial discourse and oftenre-instated by much of African literary criticism.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aAfrican literature (English)|xHistory and criticism.
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|aCulture in literature.
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|aHoly, The, in literature.
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|aLiterature and society|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century.
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|aMagic realism (Literature)
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|aMyth in literature.
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|aPolitics and literature|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century.
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|aReligion in literature.
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|aAfrica|xIn literature.
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