Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature
book by Manav Ratti
The Postsecular Imagination traces the emergence of postsecularism from the strengths and limits of religion and secularism. It shows how faith, wonder, enchantment, and ethical life can take form in secular orders designed to avert religiously fueled violence, civil war, partition, and majoritarianism.
Through postcolonial, diasporic, literary, and South Asian lenses, Ratti reads Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie, and Allan Sealy. This study highlights the risk, courage, and experimentation animating a radical postsecular imagination.