Memory and myth: postcolonial religion in contemporary Guyanese fiction and poetry
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...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Amsterdam New York
Rodopi
2009
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| В: | Год: 2009 |
| Обзоры: | Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry. By Fiona Darroch (2010) (Filipczak, Dorota)
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| Серии журналов/журналы: | Cross / cultures
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| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Religion in literature
B Guyanese literature History and criticism |
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| Итог: | 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 |
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| Примечание: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 904202576X |