The postsecular imagination [electronic resource] : postcolonialism, religion, and literature / Manav Ratti.

By: Ratti, ManavContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 45Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013Description: xxviii, 240 p. : illISBN: 9780203071793 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Secularism in literature | Religion in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Postsecularism | Religion and literature -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.91409 LOC classification: PR9080.5 | .R38 2013Online resources: Click to View
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" -- Coda.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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