Postcolonial yearning : spiritual and secular discourses in literature /

Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sen, Asha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Temas:
Postcolonialism in literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Religion dans la littérature.
Literary theory.
Discourse analysis.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Literature.
American literature
English literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Religion in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Postcolonial Yearning"
  • 1. Travel Writing and Cultural Tourism: William Dalrymple's "Nine Lives" and Pankaj Mishra's "An End to Suffering"
  • 2. "Things Fall Apart" and "Wide Sargasso Sea" : Revisiting Spirit, Rewriting Canon
  • 3. Crossing Boundaries in Leila Ahmed's "A Border Passage" and Pico Iyer's "Abandon"
  • 4. "Spiritual/Secular; Hmong/American": Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" and Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer"
  • Epilogue: Towards an Ethical Epistemology of Language.

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