On The Sacred In African Literature
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On The Sacred In African Literature
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Author : M. Mathuray
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-07-23
On The Sacred In African Literature written by M. Mathuray and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
On The Sacred In African Literature
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Author : M. Mathuray
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-07-23
On The Sacred In African Literature written by M. Mathuray and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Critiques Of Christianity In African Literature
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Author : Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi
language : en
Publisher: East African Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Critiques Of Christianity In African Literature written by Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi and has been published by East African Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The Ancestors The Sacred Mountain
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1982
The Ancestors The Sacred Mountain written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Sacred Act Of Reading
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Author : Anne Margaret Castro
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-01-13
The Sacred Act Of Reading written by Anne Margaret Castro and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas. By engaging with spiritual traditions such as Vodou, Kumina, and Protestant Christianity while drawing on canonical Eurocentric literary theory, Anne Margaret Castro presents a novel, nuanced reading of power through the physical and metaphysical relationships portrayed in these great works of New World black literature. Castro examines prophecy in the dramas of Derek Walcott, preaching in the ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston, and liturgy in the novels of Toni Morrison, offering comparative readings alongside the works of Afro-Colombian anthropologist Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jamaican sociologist Erna Brodber, and Canadian fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson. The Sacred Act of Reading is the first book to bring together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for thinking within, against, and beyond structures of political dominance, dependence, and power.
African Literature Mother Earth And Religion
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Author : Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-03-15
African Literature Mother Earth And Religion written by Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a collection of essays that explore the intersection of Earth, Gender and Religion in African literary texts. It examines cultural, religious, theological and philosophical traditions, and their construction of perspectives and attitudes about Earth-keeping and gender. This publication is critical given the current global environmental crisis and its impact on African and global communities. The book is multidisciplinary in approach (literary, environmental, theological and sociological), exploring the intersection of African creative work, religion and the environment in their construction of Earth and gender. It presents how the gendered interconnectedness of the natural environment, with its broad spirituality and deep identification with the woman, features prominently in the myths, folklores, legends, rituals, sacred songs and incantations that are explored in this collection. Both male and female writers in the collection laud and accept woman’s enduring motif as worker, symbol and guardian of the environment. This interconnectedness mirrors the importance of the environment for the survival of both human and non-human components of Mother Earth. The ideology of women’s agency is emphasised and reinforced by ecofeminist theologians; namely those viewing African women as active agents working closely with the environment and not as subordinates. In the context of the environmental crisis the nurturing role of women should be bolstered and the rich African traditions that conserved the environment preserved. The book advocates the re-engagement of women, particularly their knowledge and conservation techniques and how these can become reservoirs of dying traditions. This volume offers recorded traditions in African literary texts, thereby connecting gender, religion and the environment and helpful perspectives in Earth-keeping.
Postsecular Poetics
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Author : Rebekah Cumpsty
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-08-11
Postsecular Poetics written by Rebekah Cumpsty and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
African Literature Mother Earth And Religion
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Author : Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
African Literature Mother Earth And Religion written by Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with categories.
This book is a collection of essays that explore the intersection of Earth, Gender and Religion in African literary texts. It examines cultural, religious, theological and philosophical traditions, and their construction of perspectives and attitudes about Earth-keeping and gender. This publication is critical given the current global environmental crisis and its impact on African and global communities. The book is multidisciplinary in approach (literary, environmental, theological and sociological), exploring the intersection of African creative work, religion and the environment in their construction of Earth and gender. It presents how the gendered interconnectedness of the natural environment, with its broad spirituality and deep identification with the woman, features prominently in the myths, folklores, legends, rituals, sacred songs and incantations that are explored in this collection.Both male and female writers in the collection laud and accept woman's enduring motif as worker, symbol and guardian of the environment. This interconnectedness mirrors the importance of the environment for the survival of both human and non-human components of Mother Earth. The ideology of women's agency is emphasised and reinforced by ecofeminist theologians; namely those viewing African women as active agents working closely with the environment and not as subordinates. In the context of the environmental crisis the nurturing role of women should be bolstered and the rich African traditions that conserved the environment preserved. The book advocates the re-engagement of women, particularly their knowledge and conservation techniques and how these can become reservoirs of dying traditions. This volume offers recorded traditions in African literary texts, thereby connecting gender, religion and the environment and helpful perspectives in Earth-keeping.
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality
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Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
African Beliefs In The New World
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Author : Lucie Pradel
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2000
African Beliefs In The New World written by Lucie Pradel and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afro-Caribbean cults categories.
Like a kaleidoscope, the Caribbean world displays the vibrant colors of its diversity. Ethnic groups from four continents brought their customs and beliefs to this New World. The sheer number of African people brought to the Caribbean islands perpetuated through their spiritual vitality, the central role played by traditional religions in African life. Though they hadn't brought along the material support of their worship, they had buried in their memory other essential supports: memories of gods, of myths, rites, rhythms, tales, legends, proverbs, songs, dances, sculptures, all the fundamental vectors of their religious thought. Through a process of secularization, continuity, adaptation, creation, syncretism and synthesis, these elements helped vitalize the artistic, profane and sacred domains of Caribbean cultures.