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Intimating the Sacred : Religion in malaysian Fiction /
Four main objectives underpin this study: to introduce Anglophone Malaysian literature to a wider, international readership; to identify the varied dimensions of religion and religiosity in Malaysian fiction in English, and what they reveal about identity and nationhood; to demonstrate the manner in...
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2011
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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.