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UNINA9910800035603321 |
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Autore |
Ratti Manav |
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Titolo |
The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature / / Manav Ratti |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-09689-9 |
1-283-94173-2 |
0-203-07179-4 |
1-135-09690-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 45 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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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 |
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