| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 202 pages). |
| Series |
Cross/cultures,
0924-1426 ;
103
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Cross/cultures ; 103.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index. |
| Contents |
Shifting the boundaries : a postcolonial interrogation of the category 'religion' -- Developing a hermeneutic for the combined study of religion and postcolonial literature -- Religion and remembrance : Wilson Harris's Jonestown as an act of anamnesis -- Caught in Anancy's web : the poetry of John Agard, Grace Nichols, and others -- Sacred migrations in Indo-Guyanese fiction and poetry : the work of David Dabydeen. |
| Summary |
This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption of the term 'religion' outside of a Western Enlightenment and Christian context should therefore be treated with caution. Within postcolonial literary criticism, there has been either a silencing of the category as a result of this caution or an uncritical and essentializing adoption of the term 'religion'. It is argued in the present study that a vital aspect of how writers articulate their histo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Guyanese literature -- History and criticism.
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Religion in literature.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1820-2009 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Postcolonial religion in contemporary Guyanese fiction and poetry |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Darroch, Fiona (Fiona Jane). Memory and myth. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009 9789042025769 (OCoLC)427322368 |
| ISBN |
9781441625434 (electronic bk.) |
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1441625437 (electronic bk.) |
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904202576X (hd. bd.) |
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9789042025769 (hd. bd.) |
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