ISBN:
9781137340184
,
9781137340177
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (127 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave pivot
Parallel Title:
Print version Postcolonial Yearning : Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature
DDC:
305.896/97292071
Keywords:
Oriental literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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English literature ; History and criticism
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American literature ; History and criticism
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Religion in literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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;
Note:
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