Postsecular Poetics

Postsecular Poetics

Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

Cumpsty, Rebekah

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2022

182

Dura

Inglês

9781032231655

15 a 20 dias

453

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Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: The Sacred and Postsecular in African Fiction

Chapter One: Ritualization and the Limits of the Body in Chris Abani's and Yvonne Vera's Fiction

Chapter Two: The Sacred in the City: Pedestrian mapping in the work of Phaswane Mpe, Teju Cole and Ivan Vladislavic

Chapter Three: Cultivation, Alterity and Excess: The Sublime in J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat

Chapter Four: Postsecular Poetics in World Literature

Coda

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Postcolonial;African;Postsecular;Fiction;sacred;diaspora;religion;Contemporary African Fiction;Ancestral Narration;Teju Cole's Open City;Secular Faith;Postsecular Critique;Deep Time;African Fiction;Secular Modernity;Abani's Song;Pedestrian Mapping;Somatic Empathy;Katherine's Body;Chris Abani;Ritual Scarification;Anil's Ghost;Mpe's Novel;Hungry Tide;Postcolonial City;African Epistemologies;Stone Virgins;African Literatures;East LA;Yoruba Deities;ZANLA;South African Landscape