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  1. Postsecular Poetics
    Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction
    Author: Cumpsty, Rebekah
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiations manifest in postcolonial African settings, represented and registered in fiction. It demonstrates how African and diasporic... more

     

    This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiations manifest in postcolonial African settings, represented and registered in fiction. It demonstrates how African and diasporic authors disrupt the epistemological and ontological modalities of globalized literary production

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032316888
    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Subjects: Colonialism & imperialism; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter; POL045000; POL053000; Politics & government; Politik und Staat; RELIGION / General; Religion & beliefs; Religion und Glaube
    Scope: 162 Seiten
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    DedicationAcknowledgements PrefaceIntroduction: The Sacred and Postsecular in African FictionChapter One: Ritualization and the Limits of the Body in Chris Abanis and Yvonne Veras FictionChapter Two: The Sacred in the City: Pedestrian mapping in the work of Phaswane Mpe, Teju Cole and Ivan VladislavicChapter Three: Cultivation, Alterity and Excess: The Sublime in J. M. Coetzees Boyhood and Marlene van Niekerks AgaatChapter Four: Postsecular Poetics in World LiteratureCodaReference List