Postsecular Poetics Negotiating The Sacred And Secular In Contemporary African Fiction Rebekah Cumpsty by Rebekah Cumpsty instant download after payment.

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 globalised modernity. These concerns have been addressed in social science disciplines, but largely neglected in postcolonial and literary studies until now. To remedy this oversight, this interdisciplinary study brings current debates in religious and postsecular studies to bear on African literatures and postcolonial studies 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 globalised literary production, often characterised as secular, and imagine alternatives which incorporate religious discourse into a postsecular world.