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The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature
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The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature / Manav Ratti.
ISBN
9780415480970 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415480973 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203071793 (ebook)
0203071794 (ebook)
Published
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description
xxviii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2013
Series
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 45
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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"
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