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...
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (xxxii, 202 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1441625437 |