Postcolonial Yearning

Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33296-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 115 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 2667 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sen, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Spiritualismus, Spiritismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Postcolonial Yearning 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. Crossing Boundaries 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: Towards an Ethical Epistemology of Language

Über Autor(innen)

Asha Sen is Professor in the Deptartment of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.