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100 1 Darroch, Fiona
245 10 Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures
in English :|bMemory and Myth - Postcolonial Religion in
Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry
264 1 Amsterdam :|bBRILL,|c2009
264 4 |c©2009
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505 0 Intro -- Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religionin
Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry -- Table of
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Shifting
the Boundaries: A Postcolonial Interrogation of the
Category 'Religion' -- 2 Developing a Hermeneutic for the
Combined Study of Religion and Postcolonial Literature --
3 Religion and Remembrance: Wilson Harris's Jonestown as
an Act of Anamnesis -- 4 Caught in Anancy's Web: The
Poetry of John Agard, Grace Nichols, and Others -- 5
Sacred Migrations in Indo-Guyanese Fiction and Poetry: The
Work of David Dabydeen -- Conclusion -- Works Cited --
Index
520 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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650 0 Guyanese literature -- History and criticism.;Religion in
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