Intimating the Sacred: Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Abstract
Religion has permeated Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. This study provides insights on the practices of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the religious rhetoric promoted by the government. The book also reveals the intersections between religion and other facets of colonial and postcolonial identity such as class, gender and sexuality.
Keywords: Anglophone literature, Malaysia, religious rhetoric, colonial identity, post-colonial identity, class, gender, sexuality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9789888083213 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: January 2012 | DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888083213.001.0001 |
