Postcolonial Yearning : Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature / / by A. Sen

• Autore: Sen A
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/97292071
• Soggetto topico: Literature - Philosophy; Literature - History and criticism; Religion; Spirituality; African literature; Oriental literature; Literary Theory; Literary History; African Literature; Asian Literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anglophone 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial Yearning
• ISBN: 9781349999552; 1349999555; 9781137340184; 1137340185
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954081003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave pivot.