The postsecular imagination: postcolonialism, religion, and literature
1. Postsecularism and nation : Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- 2. Minority's Christianity : Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- 3. Postsecularism and violence : Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- 4. If truth were a Sikh woman : Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the b...
| Summary: | 1. Postsecularism and nation : Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- 2. Minority's Christianity : Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- 3. Postsecularism and violence : Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- 4. If truth were a Sikh woman : Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- 5. Postsecularism and prophecy : Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- 6. 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 -- 7. The known and the unknowable : Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha." |
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| ISBN: | 0203071794 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9780203071793 |