03882oam 2200805I 450 991078607330332120230803025019.01-135-09689-91-283-94173-20-203-07179-41-135-09690-210.4324/9780203071793 (CKB)2670000000315458(EBL)1108514(OCoLC)823719253(SSID)ssj0000804123(PQKBManifestationID)12335731(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804123(PQKBWorkID)10814364(PQKB)10560966(MiAaPQ)EBC1108514(Au-PeEL)EBL1108514(CaPaEBR)ebr10643509(CaONFJC)MIL425423(OCoLC)825181152(OCoLC)828735275(OCoLC)872688413(FINmELB)ELB134056(EXLCZ)99267000000031545820180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe postsecular imagination postcolonialism, religion, and literature /Manav RattiAbingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (271 p.)Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;45Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;45Description based upon print version of record.1-138-82237-X 0-415-48097-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 anRoutledge Research in Postcolonial LiteraturesCommonwealth fiction (English)History and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismSecularism in literatureReligion in literaturePostcolonialism in literaturePostsecularismReligion and literatureCommonwealth countriesHistory20th centuryCommonwealth fiction (English)History and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Secularism in literature.Religion in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.Postsecularism.Religion and literatureHistory823/.91409Ratti Manav.1542869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786073303321The postsecular imagination3795999UNINA