Download or read book On the Sacred in African Literature written by M. Mathuray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.