At a moment in history when the world seems increasingly drawn into
a violent "clash of fundamentalisms," this boundary 2 special
issue, Critical Secularism, brings together renowned figures in
cultural studies and literary theory to critically rethink the
narratives of secularization that characterize modern culture.
Implicit within this collection is a consideration of the fate, in
the twenty-first century, and in the postcolonial world, of the
legacies of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While recognizing
the homogenizing tendencies of post-Enlightenment culture, these
scholars collectively militate against a simplistic rejection of
the Enlightenment and its theoretical legacies as mere tools of
colonization, used to legitimize the domination of various cultural
and ethnic "others." Rather, these essays explore the potential
that a renewal of secularism has for progressive culture and
politics in this historical moment, when religiously inflected
politics and violence are escalating around the globe.In this
collection, prominent literary and cultural theorists discuss the
crisis that secularist theory faces in postcolonial contexts,
and-in a recuperative effort-focus on secularism from the
perspectives of various marginalized groups (religious and cultural
minorities, women, and colonized peoples.). Essays explore
secularist expression across a range of cultural and literary
texts- from Indian medieval lyrics to the contemporary fiction of
the Levant. Other contributors offer critical reevaluations of
previous scholarship on secularism, and plumb the relationship
between literary criticism/theory and the politics of secularism.
Contributors. Emily Apter, Rashmi Bhatnagar, Akeel Bilgrami, Rashmi
Dube, Reena Dube, Renu Dube, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Willi Goetschel,
Stathis Gourgouris, David M. Halperin, Gil Hochberg, Ronald Judy,
Aamir R. Mufti, Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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