1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004595800403321

Autore

Ranstrand, Gunnar

Titolo

Textkritische Beiträge zu Pomponius Mela / Gunnar Ranstrand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Goeteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1971

Descrizione fisica

46 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia ; 29

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

P2B 650 MELA 8R.G. 1971

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786073303321

Autore

Ratti Manav

Titolo

The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature / / Manav Ratti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-09689-9

1-283-94173-2

0-203-07179-4

1-135-09690-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 45

Disciplina

823/.91409

Soggetti

Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Secularism in literature

Religion in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Postsecularism

Religion and literature - Commonwealth countries - History - 20th century



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha" -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics an