RT Book
T1 Memory and myth: postcolonial religion in contemporary Guyanese fiction and poetry
T2 Cross / cultures
A1 Darroch, Fiona
LA English
PP Amsterdam New York
PB Rodopi
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/665133812
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PR9320
SN 904202576X
SN 1282505122
SN 9781282505124
SN 9789042029262
SN 9789042025769
K1 Guyanese literature : History and criticism
K1 Religion in literature