TY - BOOK AU - Ratti,Manav TI - The postsecular imagination: postcolonialism, religion, and literature T2 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures SN - 9780415480970 (hardback : alk. paper) PY - 2013/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon PB - Routledge KW - Commonwealth fiction (English) KW - History and criticism KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - Secularism in literature KW - Religion in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Postsecularism KW - Religion and literature KW - Commonwealth countries KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index; Introduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's'Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha' -- Coda ER -