This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimensionof canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: DIRECTIONS - 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 - PART II: INDIRECTIONS - Sacred Realism: Ben Okri's The Famished Road - The Stalled Sublime: J.M. Coetzee's Foe - Conclusion: The Political as Tragic Effect - Notes - Works Cited - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57755-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés