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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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.