Religion in South Asian Anglophone literature : traversing resistance, margins and extremism /: traversing resistance, margins and extremism. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sk. Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam.
• Editors: Ali, Sk. Sagir; Karmakar, Goutam; Islam, Nasima
• Contents: Introduction Part 1 Religion, Agency and Cultural Memory 1. Fear of the Other: Narrator and Narratives in Tabish Khair’s Night of Happiness and Jihadi Jane. Farddina Hussain 2. Kurukshetra and Karbala: Mahabharata in Intizar Hussain’s Fiction. Haris Qadeer 3. The Return of the Goddess: Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island and the Manasamangal . Swati Moitra 4. “All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own” : Faith, doubt and poetics of secularism in The Enchantress of Florence . Sk. Sagir Al i Part 2 Ethnicity, Myth, Caste and Censorship 5. The Poetics and the Politics of Kashmiriyat: A Study of Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator and The Book of Gold Leaves . Somjyoti Mridha 6. Thinking the Body, Figuring (the) Woman Religion, Caste, Gender and Identity in Literary Representations. Arunima Ray 7. Death of an author: Dissecting the notion of religious hurt sentiment vis-à-vis literary-political censorship in India through One Part Woman . Nasima Islam 8. Religious Hegemony and Literature: Appropriation of Subaltern’s Parables in Amitav Ghosh’ The Hungry Tide . Jai Sing h Part 3 War, Trauma and History 9. The “Long Shadow” of Bangladeshi Liberation War: Religion and Nationalism in Tahmima Anam’s Bengal Trilogy. Rimi Nath 10. Situating Religiosity in 19th Century Assam: Reading Tilottama Mishra’s Swarnalata. Sibsankar Majumdar 11. A Historian under Siege: Rethinking Secular Historiography. Kaushani Mondal 12. “First a Friend and Then an Enemy”: Trauma, Fetish, and Binary Politics in The Black Coat. Avijit Basak 13. Religion as the Messianic “Other” of Secular Modernity: Locating Habermas’ Post-Secular Society in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’ s Ghost . Swayamdipta Das
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9954; South Asian literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; South Asian literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Religion in literature; Secularism in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000449594; 9781000449563; 9781003158424
• Related ISBNs: 9780367744502
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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