On the Sacred in African Literature

On the Sacred in African Literature
Author: M. Mathuray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2009-07-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230240917


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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 dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces.


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