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On the sacred in African literatureold gods and new worlds /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On the sacred in African literatureMarkMathuray.
Reminder of title:	old gods and new worlds /
Author:	Mathuray, Mark,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	viii, 205 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	African literature (English)History and criticism.
Subject:	AfricaExhibitions.Antiquities
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230240919

On the sacred in African literatureold gods and new worlds /
Mathuray, Mark,1972-

On the sacred in African literatureold gods and new worlds /[electronic resource] :MarkMathuray. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - viii, 205 p. ;23 cm.

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 -- Sacredrealism : Ben Okri's The famished road -- The stalled sublime : J.M. Coetzee's Foe -- Conclusion : the political as tragic effect.

The 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.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230240919

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230240919doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

461027
African literature (English)
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

390751
Africa
--Antiquities--Exhibitions.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR9340.5 / .M37 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/382

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