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Memory and Myth - Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry (Hardcover)
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Memory and Myth - Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Cross/Cultures, 103
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This book investigates the problematical historical location of the
term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the
analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption
of the term 'religion' outside of a Western Enlightenment and
Christian context should therefore be treated with caution. Within
postcolonial literary criticism, there has been either a silencing
of the category as a result of this caution or an uncritical and
essentializing adoption of the term 'religion'. It is argued in the
present study that a vital aspect of how writers articulate their
histories of colonial contact, migration, slavery, and the
re-forging of identities in the wake of these histories is
illuminated by the classificatory term 'religion'. Aspects of
postcolonial theory and Religious Studies theory are combined to
provide fresh insights into the literature, thereby expanding the
field of postcolonial literary criticism. The way in which writers
'remember' history through writing is central to the way in which
'religion' is theorized and articulated; the act of remembrance can
be persuasively interpreted in terms of 'religion'. The title
'Memory and Myth' therefore refers to both the syncretic mythology
of Guyana, and the key themes in a new critical understanding of
'religion'. Particular attention is devoted to Wilson Harris's
novel "Jonestown," alongside theoretical and historical material on
the actual Jonestown tragedy; to the mesmerizing effect of the
Anancy tales on contemporary writers, particularly the poet John
Agard; and to the work of the Indo-Guyanese writer David Dabydeen
and his elusive character Manu.
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