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Intimating the sacred : religion in English-language Malaysian fiction / Andrew Hock Soon Ng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ng, Andrew Hock-soon, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malaysian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- Malaysian fiction (English).
- Religion in literature.
- Religion and sociology--Malaysia.
- Religion and sociology.
- Literature and society--Malaysia.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 which these narratives provide crucial insights into the "cultural memory" of a people, rather than as documents about "the nation"; and to reveal the intersections between religion and other facets of identity such as class, gender and sexuality. The book is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers interested in Malaysian literature and religion. Those interested in the intersections between (post)modernity and religion in the Southeast Asian region will also find this book useful. Also, students and researchers interested in the configurations of women and postcoloniality from a religious perspective may also find this book insightful.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-983-1
- 988-8053-88-4
- OCLC:
- 770306085
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