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Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

by Rebekah Cumpsty

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intricate negotiations between the two, codified in recent criticism as postsecularism, are fundamental conditions of globalized modernity. These concerns have been addressed in social science disciplines, but they have largely been neglected in postcolonial and literary studies. To remedy this oversight, this monograph draws together four areas of study: it brings debates in religious and postsecular studies to bear on African literatures and postcolonial studies. The focus of this interdisciplinary study is to understand how postsecular negotiations manifest in postcolonial African settings and how they are represented and registered in fiction. Through this focus, this book reveals how African and African-diasporic authors radically disrupt the epistemological and ontological modalities of globalized literary production, often characterized as secular, and imagine alternatives which incorporate the sacred into a postsecular world.
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Concilium 202 Music And The Experience Of GodPostsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

  • Author

    Rebekah Cumpsty

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    August 2022

  • Weight

    414g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032231655

  • ISBN-10

    1032231653

  • Eden Code

    5700371

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