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
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
Rebekah Cumpsty is Assistant Professor of Anglophone World Literature at Weber State University. Her recent work includes articles for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Interventions, and the co-edited project"The Body Now"(2020), a special issue of Interventions.
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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 Vladislavi¿ 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 Reference List
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 Vladislavi¿ 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 Reference List
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