Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry. By Fiona Darroch
Fiona Darroch's; book is an attempt to redefine ‘religion’ as a useful category to unearth what is repressed in mainstream postcolonial criticism. The author attributes the marginalization of religion in postcolonial studies to ‘a dependency’ on ‘a Western definition of what religion is and a W...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 89-91 |
| Review of: | Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English (Amsterdam : BRILL, 2009) (Filipczak, Dorota)
Memory and myth (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009) (Filipczak, Dorota) Memory and myth (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009) (Filipczak, Dorota) Memory and myth (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2009) (Filipczak, Dorota) |
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| Summary: | Fiona Darroch's; book is an attempt to redefine ‘religion’ as a useful category to unearth what is repressed in mainstream postcolonial criticism. The author attributes the marginalization of religion in postcolonial studies to ‘a dependency’ on ‘a Western definition of what religion is and a Western Enlightenment and intellectual history’ (p. 2). She does not mention the fact that much postcolonial theory was inspired by Marxism’s distrust of religion as an ‘opiate’ for the masses. Aware as Darroch is that religion is a ‘Christian theological category’ (p. 2), she uses it as a common denominator in a discussion of texts which reflect Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq001 |