On the Sacred in African Literature: Old Gods and New Worlds

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.

Author: M. Mathuray
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/23/2009
Pages: 205
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230577558

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/13/2009 pg. 18
Choice 05/01/2010

About the Author
MARK MATHURAY is at present a lecturer in the English Department of Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where previously he held a Leverhulme Early Careers Research Fellowship. He studied and taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and received a PhD from Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. He has published various articles on religious discourses in African literature.

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