Lexington Books
Pages: 198
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-4893-9 • Hardback • June 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-4894-6 • eBook • June 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Roger McNamara is assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University.
Introduction: “Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature”
Chapter 1: “Burgher Writing: Aesthetics as Resistance to Secular Time in Carl Muller’s and Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction”
Chapter 2: “Muslim Writing: Secular Criticism in Saadat Hasan Manto’s and Ismat Cughtai’s Fiction”
Chapter 3: “Parsi Writing: Developing a Fine Balance: Secularism, Religion, and Minority Politics in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters
Chapter 4: “Anglo-Indian Writing: The Conundrum of Secular Nationalism in Frank Anthony’s and I. Allan Sealy’s Writing”
Chapter 5: “Dalit Writing: Secular Catholicism and Feminist Critique in Bama’s Texts”
Conclusion: “Secularism and Sites of Renewal”
This book makes a significant contribution to the study of how writers from minority groups such as the Burghers in Sri Lanka and the Muslims, Parsis, Anglo-Indians and Dalits in India engaged secularism.
— Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas at El Paso