Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature

1. Introduction
Asha Sen

2. Travel Writing and Cultural Tourism: William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives and Pankaj Mishra’s An End to Suffering
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3. Things Fall Apart and Wide Sargasso Sea: Revisiting Spirit, Rewriting Canon
Asha Sen

4. Boundary Crossings in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage and Pico Iyer’s Abandon
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5. “Spiritual/Secular; Hmong/American”: Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer
Asha Sen

6. Epilogue: Toward an Ethical Epistemology of Language
Asha Sen

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History, Religious Studies, general, Spirituality, African Literature, Asian Literature