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Intimating the sacred : religion in English language Malaysian fiction.
Religion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intimating the Sacred, Andrew Hock Soon Ng considers the practice of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the impression created by religious rhetoric pro...
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- ch. 1. Visions of possibilities : religion and/as "hospitality" in Lloyd Fernando's novels
- ch. 2. Irony and the sacred in Lee Kok Liang's fiction
- ch. 3. Hinduism and the ways of the divine : the works of K.S. Maniam
- ch. 4. Contentious faiths : questioning Confucianism and Christianity in the fiction of Shirley Lim
- ch. 5. Islam and modernity in contemporary Anglophone fiction by Malay writers
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.