The postsecular imagination postcolonialism, religion, and literature / [electronic resource] :
Manav Ratti.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- xxviii, 240 p. : ill.
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 45 .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780203071793 (electronic bk.)
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism. English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Secularism in literature. Religion in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Postsecularism. Religion and literature--History--Commonwealth countries--20th century.