![]() ![]() African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney 5. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style by Denisede Caires Narain 4. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 3. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper 2. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. A recent faculty Fulbright Scholar at New York University, he is Fellow Designate at the Institute of Advanced Study at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Manav Ratti completed his doctorate at Oxford University and is Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. ![]() Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can fi nd expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affi rmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures ![]() THE POSTSECULAR IMAGINATION POSTCOLONIALISM, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE ![]()
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