LEADER 03836nam 22007935 450 001 9910791091203321 005 20200919013539.0 010 $a1-349-99955-5 010 $a1-137-34018-5 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137340184 035 $a(CKB)2550000001189911 035 $a(EBL)1128519 035 $a(OCoLC)828298517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12421484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10996694 035 $a(PQKB)11425073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1128519 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-34018-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001189911 100 $a20170711d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostcolonial Yearning$b[electronic resource] $eReshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature /$fby A. Sen 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (127 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-137-33296-4 311 $a1-299-18462-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Index 330 $aAnglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aLiterature?History and criticism 606 $aReligion 606 $aSpirituality 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aLiterary History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000 606 $aReligious Studies, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A0000 606 $aSpirituality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A9000 606 $aAfrican Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000 606 $aAsian Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aLiterature?History and criticism. 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aSpirituality. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aReligious Studies, general. 615 24$aSpirituality. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a305.896/97292071 700 $aSen$b A$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01532445 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791091203321 996 $aPostcolonial Yearning$93778590 997 $aUNINA