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1 online resource |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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Introduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha" -- Coda |
| Summary |
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics an |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Secularism in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postsecularism.
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Religion and literature -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Commonwealth fiction (English)
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English fiction
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Postsecularism
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Religion and literature
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Religion in literature
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Secularism in literature
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Commonwealth countries
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135096908 |
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1135096902 |
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0203071794 |
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9780203071793 |
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