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.
Autorentext
Asha Sen is Professor in the Deptartment of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Inhalt
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
Titel
Postcolonial Yearning
Untertitel
Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature
Autor
EAN
9781137340184
ISBN
978-1-137-34018-4
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
20.02.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.75 MB
Anzahl Seiten
115
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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