Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture

Rewriting the Divine?

Sura Qadiri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2014
Maney Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-907975-81-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the divine to a very explicit upholding of a sense of dichotomy between literary text and sacred scripture.

Sura Qadiri

Introduction 1. Body, Text, Excess 2. Withdrawn Divine I: The Blank Book in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable and Amin Maalouf's Le Périple de Baldassare 3. Withdrawn Divine II: Vanishing Bodies and Empty Space in Georges Perec's La Disparition and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue française 4. Divine Senses of Place: Mecca versus Madina 5. Conclusion

Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-907975-81-0 / 1907975810
ISBN-13	978-1-907975-81-3 / 9781907975813
Zustand	Neuware