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Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature

By Sen A.

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english
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Literature Literary
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
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New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 115 p. — ISBN-10: 1137332964; ISBN-13: 978-1137332967.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.Contents.Preface.Poem for Eberth.Acknowledgments.Introduction.Travel Writing and Cultural Tourism: William Dalrymple's Nine Lives and Pankaj Mishra's An End to Suffering.Things Fall Apart and Wide Sargasso Sea: Revisiting Spirit, Rewriting Canon.Boundary Crossings in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage and Pico Iyer's Abandon."Spiritual/Secular; Hmong/American": Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Kao Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer.Epilogue: Toward an Ethical Epistemology of Language.Works Cited.Index.

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