Intimating the Sacred. Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction.

NG, ANDREW HOCK-SOON.

ISBN 10: 9888083201 / ISBN 13: 9789888083206

Editore: Hong Kong University Press., Hong Kong., 2011

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ix + 281 pages, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket. This study analyzes an important feature in English-language Malaysian fiction that has been considerably neglected in scholarship - the theme of religion. Through interrogating this theme, the multilayered textures of cultural memories that are infused with "spiritual" dimensions are revealed in the narratives under discussion.

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• Titolo: Intimating the Sacred. Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction.
• Editore: Hong Kong University Press., Hong Kong.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9888083201
• ISBN 13: 9789888083206
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Asia-literature

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Riassunto

Religion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intimating the Sacred, Andrew Hock Soon Ng considers the practice of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the impression created by religious rhetoric promoted by the government. The book’s examination of intersections between (post)modernity and religion highlights links between religion and other facets of colonial and postcolonial identity such as class, gender and sexuality. It will appeal not only to scholars and specialists, but also to anyone who enjoys modern Southeast Asian literature.

Informazioni sugli autori

Andrew Hock Soon Ng is senior lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia. He is the author of Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives and Interrogating Interstices.

Andrew Hock Soon Ng is senior lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia. He is the author of Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives and Interrogating Interstices.