Postcolonial yearning : spiritual and secular discourses in literature /
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 c...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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