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This book focuses on ideology and its function in fictional discourse, exploring the link between textual ideologies and the real ideologies in the text production environments. It attempts this through a specific focus on the social and linguistic elements that control the presence, the use, and the presentation of ideology, and also the way in which linguistic elements are controlled and manipulated by the collective consciousness of the text producer. This correlation between fictional dis...
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The Infinite Longing for Home is a groundbreaking study of Ben Okri's and K.S. Maniam's literary problematization of 'home' in relation to subjectivity and the nation within and beyond the context of Nigeria and Malaysia. Drawing on Lacan, Žižek, Laclau and Mouffe, and weaving through history, politics, philosophy and literature, this book critically examines the motives and means by which peoples forced to live together in a country love and hate each other, and overlook the truths about themselves, their actions and beliefs. It looks into why some embrace heterogeneity and open-endedness while others are internally compelled to over-identify passionately with their religion and race, and to posit theirs as irreducibly distinct from and superior to others'. The Infinite Longing for Home also traces through Okri's and Maniam's writings a way out of today's political aporia, a path to the re-creation of a new society humbled and unified by the recognition of its participation in flawed humanity.
Okri, Ben --- Home in literature. --- Malaysian fiction (English) --- Nationalism in literature. --- Nigerian fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Nigerian literature (English) --- Malaysian literature (English) --- Nigerian authors --- Maniam (k.s.), 1942 --- -Okri, Ben --- -Maniam (k.s.), 1942 --- -Home in literature. --- Malaysian literature. --- Nigerian literature. --- Maniam, K. S. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Four main objectives underpin this study: to introduce Anglophone Malaysian literature to a wider, international readership; to identify the varied dimensions of religion and religiosity in Malaysian fiction in English, and what they reveal about identity and nationhood; to demonstrate the manner in which these narratives provide crucial insights into the "cultural memory" of a people, rather than as documents about "the nation"; and to reveal the intersections between religion and other facets of identity such as class, gender and sexuality. The book is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers interested in Malaysian literature and religion. Those interested in the intersections between (post)modernity and religion in the Southeast Asian region will also find this book useful. Also, students and researchers interested in the configurations of women and postcoloniality from a religious perspective may also find this book insightful.
Literature and society --- Religion and sociology --- Religion in literature. --- Malaysian fiction (English) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- English fiction --- Malaysian literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects
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