Research Catalog

Title

Postsecular poetics : negotiating the sacred and secular in contemporary African fiction / Rebekah Cumpsty.

Author

Cumpsty, Rebekah

Publication

• New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xix, 161 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intricate negotiations between the two, codified as postsecularism, are fundamental conditions of globalized modernity. These concerns have been addressed in social science disciplines, but largely neglected in postcolonial and literary studies. To remedy this oversight, this monograph 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, the book demonstrates 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 religious discourse into a postsecular world"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Uniform Title

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.

Subject

• African fiction (English) > History and criticism
• Postsecularism in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• African fiction (English)
• Postsecularism
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Ritualisation and the limits of the body in Chris Abani's and Yvonne Vera's fiction -- 2. The sacred in the city: Pedestrian mapping in the work of Phaswane Mpe, Teju Cole and Ivan Vladislavic -- 3. Cultivation, alterity and excess: The sublime in J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat -- 4. Postsecular poetics in world literature -- 5. Coda.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3153

ISBN

• 9781032231655
• 1032231653

LCCN

2022007419

OCLC

1301484412

Author

Cumpsty, Rebekah, author.

Title

Postsecular poetics : negotiating the sacred and secular in contemporary African fiction / Rebekah Cumpsty.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3153