Postcolonial Yearning 2013
Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature
Book
Paperback/Softback
115 pages
978-1-349-99955-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-99955-2 (9781349999552)
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E-Book
02/2013
1st Edition
Palgrave Pivot
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Person
Asha Sen is Professor in the Deptartment of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Content
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