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Memory and myth : postcolonial religion in contemporary Guyanese fiction and poetry /

This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption of the term 'religion' outside of a Western Enlightenment and Christian context...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Darroch, Fiona (Fiona Jane)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 103.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shifting the boundaries : a postcolonial interrogation of the category 'religion'
  • Developing a hermeneutic for the combined study of religion and postcolonial literature
  • Religion and remembrance : Wilson Harris's Jonestown as an act of anamnesis
  • Caught in Anancy's web : the poetry of John Agard, Grace Nichols, and others
  • Sacred migrations in Indo-Guyanese fiction and poetry : the work of David Dabydeen.