03836nam 22007935 450 991079109120332120200919013539.01-349-99955-51-137-34018-510.1057/9781137340184(CKB)2550000001189911(EBL)1128519(OCoLC)828298517(SSID)ssj0000949593(PQKBManifestationID)12421484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949593(PQKBWorkID)10996694(PQKB)11425073(MiAaPQ)EBC1128519(DE-He213)978-1-137-34018-4(EXLCZ)99255000000118991120170711d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial Yearning[electronic resource] Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature /by A. Sen1st ed. 2013.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2013.1 online resource (127 p.)Palgrave pivotDescription based upon print version of record.1-137-33296-4 1-299-18462-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Poem for Eberth; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Boundary Crossings 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: Toward an Ethical Epistemology of Language; Works Cited; IndexAnglophone 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.Palgrave pivot.Literature—PhilosophyLiterature—History and criticismReligionSpiritualityAfrican literatureOriental literatureLiterary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Literary Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000Religious Studies, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A0000Spiritualityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A9000African Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000Literature—Philosophy.Literature—History and criticism.Religion.Spirituality.African literature.Oriental literature.Literary Theory.Literary History.Religious Studies, general.Spirituality.African Literature.Asian Literature.305.896/97292071Sen Aauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1532445BOOK9910791091203321Postcolonial Yearning3778590UNINA