Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature

Autor A. Sen

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 feb 2013

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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137332967
ISBN-10: 1137332964
Pagini: 115
Ilustrații: XIII, 115 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"This is a book about grieving. How does one grieve in the West? In the academy, for that matter? In this beautifully conceptualized book, Sen identifies moments in postcolonial writing that seem to gesture towards ways of articulating the mystical in language. Her close readings are superb." - Anushiya Ramaswamy, Professor of English, Southern Illinois University, USA

Notă biografică

Asha Sen is Professor in the Deptartment of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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