On the sacred in African literature : old gods and new worlds / Mark Mathuray.

Author: Mathuray, Mark, 1972-

Imprint:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Descriptionviii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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