The play of reasons : the sacred and the profane in Salman Rushdie's fiction / Youssef Yacoubi
- Author:
- Yacoubi, Youssef, 1969-
- Published:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I OF IGNORANTOLOLOGY -- ch. 1 Postcolonial Theory: Return of the Archaic -- 1.The Anxiety of Influence -- 2.The Influence of Anxiety -- 3.The Anarchy of Religion -- ch. 2 Hussain and Arkoun: The Inter-Colonial-Flow -- 4."Few Mythologies Survive Close Examination" -- 5.Grammatica Versus Un-Grammatica -- 6.Of Islamology -- 7.More about Reason... -- 8.The Kharja of Postcolonial Reason -- pt. II SATANOLOGY -- ch. 3 Tradition within Tradition -- 1.The Plural Event -- ch. 4 Confessional Commentary -- 2.Detheologizing the Name -- 3."Collective Failure of Imagination" -- 4."Ordeal of the Unscathed" -- 5."How much does it cost for Reason to tell the truth?" -- 6.The Satanic Verses as Ethical Event -- pt. III HETERODOXOLOGY -- ch. 5 Rushdie "Redecorating" the Name of Islam -- 1."One must have Tradition in one's self to hate it properly" -- 2.Confessional Criticism -- ch. 6 Rushdie: Beyond Postcolonial Reason -- 3.Democratizing Postcolonial Criticism -- 4."The process of revision should be constant and endless".
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- ISBN:
- 9781433113260 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433113260 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781453902080 (e-book)
1453902082 (e-book) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-220) and index.
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