The Promise of Postcolonial Postsecularism (original) (raw)
Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 2022
This article presents some features, potentials, limitations, and bibliographies of the intersection of postcolonialism, postsecularism, and literary studies. It examines literatures, cultures, religions, indigenous beliefs and practices, and political imaginaries from Africa, Europe, and South Asia. The religions discussed include Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism. The article shows how the institutional and discursive emergence of postcolonial postsecularism, including its intersection with literary studies, can draw lessons from similarly contestatory fields of study, such as postcolonial theory, postcolonial feminism, and intersectional feminism. The article includes bibliographies of literary works that address secularism and postsecularism, including their intersection with postcoloniality.
THE POSTSECULAR IMAGINATION – POSTCOLONIALISM, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE: MANAV RATTI (Review)
Synergy, 2017
Ottawa, Canada. As a teacher and researcher she has participated in numerous national and international conferences and many of her critical essays have been published in Romania and abroad. Her academic interests range from socio-economy to social psychology and literary and cultural studies. Since 2009 she has been an active member of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies.
Postcolonial Reflections in South Asian Literature
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
Postcolonial literature in South Asia stands as a vibrant testament to the enduring impact of colonial rule on the cultural, social, and literary landscape of the region. Emerging from the aftermath of colonialism, South Asian literature reflects the complexities of a postcolonial world, where nations once subjugated by imperial powers grapple with issues of identity, nationhood, language, and cultural hybridity. This body of literature serves as a powerful mirror, capturing the myriad ways in which the legacy of colonialism continues to shape the lives and narratives of the people of South Asia. Three novels selected to study Postcolonial Reflections in South Asian Literature are Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. These literary works explore the complex aftermath of colonialism and its impact on identity, culture, and society in the South Asian region. Through the works of renowned author...
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Discourses, Disruptions and Intersections (E-book)
2021
The term 'Postcolonial' is used for a historical phase that corresponds to the aftermath of European colonisation. The period is witness to the effects of colonialism on languages, cultures and communities in the post-independence era. The ineradicable mark of the European colonisation on the contemporary world has not only resulted in a process of unification as well as diversification but also has caused the most controversial global concerns like economic instability, ethnic rivalries, cultural violation, migration and dislocation, expatriation and hybrid nations formation along with cross culturalism and ethnic inclusiveness. This sets a question of 'identity' as one of its prime deliberations. The people belonging to the pro colonised paradigm quander in the hunt for a consolidated 'identity' while in the process of doing so find themselves consumed by insecurity and self-doubt. This concern of postcolonial dimension of the quest for identity has been widely addressed by one of the leading Indian Parsi writers in English, Boman Desai in Asylum, USA. The present paper endeavors to illustrate how migration and cultural conflicts impacts the immigrants' sense of insecurity which alters their distinctive identity by leaving a permanent deep subterranean chasm in their lives and their persistent efforts to bridge up this gap of identity with reference to the Parsi community in Asylum, USA. Boman Desai, who is born and grew up in Mumbai, is an Indian expatriate himself as he shuttles back and forth between two major cities of the world and their reflections-Bombay and Chicago. His writings are mostly evocative of some predictability in terms of approach, certain consistency in form of narratives, technique, and choice of subject matters-reminiscence of the past, migration, nostalgia, transculturalism, longingness for identity, alienation, and the theme of marriage-all of which mostly revolve around the Parsi Zoroastrian community. He is certainly more inclined towards emphatically affirming his 'Parsiness' through his works. Desai has the powerful skill to blend his memories of India and that of his Works Cited
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50.2 (2014): 243-245
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General Introduction to the edited collection Rerouting the Postcolonial
2009
Re-Routing the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture. Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, and mapping new directions in postcolonial studies, the volume includes sections on: • New growth areas from cosmopolitan theories and the utopian to diaspora and transnationalism • New subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and postcolonialism in new locations (Eastern Europe, China) • New theoretical perspectives on globalization (fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’) Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of current concerns in the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium. Contributors include: Bill Ashcroft, Anna Ball, Elleke Boehmer, Diana Brydon, Simon Gikandi, Erin Goheen Glanville, James Graham, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Victor Li, Nadia Louar, Deborah Madsen, Jeffrey Mather, Nirmala Menon, Kaori Nagai, Jane Poyner, Robert Spencer and Patrick Williams.