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Postcolonial Yearning : Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature / by A. Sen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sen, A., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave pivot.
- Palgrave pivot
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Religion.
- Spirituality.
- African literature.
- Oriental literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Literary History.
- African Literature.
- Asian Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Literary History.
- Religion.
- Spirituality.
- African Literature.
- Asian Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Poem for Eberth; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Boundary Crossings 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: Toward an Ethical Epistemology of Language; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349999552
- 1349999555
- 9781137340184
- 1137340185
- OCLC:
- 828298517
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