Stephen Ney Stephen Ney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Ney Stephen Ney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen Ney Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ney |
| SIGNATURE | NEY S N S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teleology and Secular Time in Armah and Ngũgĩ: Augustine, Manicheanism, and the African Novel
Modern secularity is sometimes taken to require an understanding of time as shapeless and open-ended. In contrast, Armah's novel Two Thousand Seasons and Ngũgĩ's novel Matigari deploy a temporality that steers the reader's attention to a certain deliverance in the future. Rather than taking this teleology as the rejection of secularity, I propose a notion of secularity derived from the North African Aurelius Augustine's fourth-century The City of…
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Teleology and Secular Time in Armah and Ngũgĩ: Augustine, Manicheanism, and the African Novel
Modern secularity is sometimes taken to require an understanding of time as shapeless and open-ended. In contrast, Armah's novel Two Thousand Seasons and Ngũgĩ's novel Matigari deploy a temporality that steers the reader's attention to a certain deliverance in the future. Rather than taking this teleology as the rejection of secularity, I propose a notion of secularity derived from the North African Aurelius Augustine's fourth-century The City of…
Art (1 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 works) · Dualism (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Islamic Studies and History (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (1 works) · Religious studies (1 works) · Secularity (1 works)