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Journal articles on the topic "Religious fiction, Nigerian (English)"

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Ibhawaegbele, Faith O., and J. N. Edokpayi. "Situational Variables in Chimamanda Adichie's and Chinua Achebe's." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001012.

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The use of the English language for literary creation has been the bane of Nigerian literature. Nigeria has a very complex linguistic system; as a result, its citizens communicate either in their indigenous languages or in English, depending on the situation in which they find themselves. The use of English in Nigerian literature in general and prose fiction in particular is influenced by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. In their attempt to offer solutions to the problems of language in literary expression, Nigerian novelists adapt English to varying linguistic and socio-cultural c
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Ogundipe, Stephen T. "Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction." Utafiti 13, no. 2 (2018): 133–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-01302008.

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Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.
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Talekar, P. R. "History Through Fiction: Chinua Achebe A Case In Point." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 5, no. 18 (2024): 30–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11654627.

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Chinua Achebe, the father of African Literature in English, was one of the most prominent Nigerian writers who dedicated his novels to represent the psychological, historical and cultural conflicts that Africans experienced as a result of the European intrusion in to African life. History plays a prominent role in postcolonial novel. The five novels of Chinua Achebe cover the Nigerian history from the pre-colonial days to the late 80s. Each novel is set in a particular period of Nigerian history
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Small, Elizabeth. "Religious Institutions in Spanish Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 28, Part 1 (2001): 33–48. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.28.1.0033.

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This article discusses three recent Spanish sf works in terms of their shared focus on the role of religious institutions in social control and the mediation (largely failed) of cultural/alien contact. The stories employ references to Spain’s long religious and colonial history, as well as references to present-day conflicts, in expressing fairly bleak visions of possible roles of religious institutions in future human society. In discussing these stories, the article draws connections with major works of English-language religious sf by James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and W
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Courtois, Cédric. "Visibilizing “Those Who Have No Part”: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction in English." Études anglaises Vol. 75, no. 2 (2022): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etan.752.0175.

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Nureni, Ibrahim. "Religious bigotry and military despotism in Olukorede S. Yishau’s In the Name of Our Father." Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues 10, no. 2 (2020): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjs.v10i2.4539.

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Although religious bigotry and military tyranny have been overtly delineated by the first and second generation novelists, especially the ones who witnessed the military maladministration in Nigeria, the contemporary Nigerian novelist also attempts to contribute and provide with more resources on the rights of the people and the liberty to be free from the imposition of religious and/or political doctrines that are socially constructed upon the people. In the Nigerian context, religious and political/military despotism are considered to go hand in hand since their ideologies formulate part of
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Karim, Asim. "Female Sexuality in Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 4 (2019): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.4.24.

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Female sexuality has remained a taboo subject in Pakistani literary and cultural representations. However, a considerable shift has occurred in contemporary Pakistani English fiction. Focusing on female bodily behaviour, the fiction explicates multiple shades of female sexual relations and experiences outside the cultural and religious norms in an unusually direct and explicit fashion. This study analyses the way Pakistani fiction, written in English, responds to the variety of different ideologies imposed upon women’s bodies and sexuality. It analyses some key sexual experiences of pubertal s
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Odebunmi, Akin. "Ideology and body part metaphors in Nigerian English." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8, no. 2 (2010): 272–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.8.2.02ode.

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Studies on Nigerian English (NE) have largely focused on the variation of NE from Standard English. Few of these have investigated metaphors in NE and none, to the best of my knowledge, has worked on ideology and metaphor. This paper fills this gap by concentrating only on body part metaphors. Metaphors related to sexual organs were sourced from Nigerian university students through oral and written interviews. Insights for analysis were drawn centrally from the theory of embodiment and critical discourse analysis. Fourteen sexual organ metaphors, which relate to two major ideological issues: t
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Ekhator, Itohan Ethel, and Peter Oghogho Aihevba. "The use of literature as a veritable instrument for the teaching of English language." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 8, no. 1-2 (2022): 236–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v8i1-2.13.

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This article discusses the use of literature as a popular tool for teaching basic language skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking and other language areas such as vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation in English as a Second Language classroom. It uses the literary method in its analysis of the Nigerian situation. The reasons and criteria for selecting literary texts are discussed. Also the benefits of different genres of literature such as poetry, short fiction, drama and novel to language teaching are taken into account. The paper recognized that all genres should be carefull
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OWOYELE, Grace Temitope, and Felix Oluwabukola OLADEJI. "Allusive Echoes: Intertextuality and Narrative Structure in Chimamanda Adichie’s Dream Count and Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 4, no. 02 (2025): 164–76. https://doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2025.v04i02.018.

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Contemporary Nigerian fiction continues to engage deeply with themes of gender, migration, and socio-political conflict, yet the structural role of allusion remains underexplored. This paper aims to critically evaluate the role of historical, biblical and pop culture allusions in Chimamanda Adichie's Dream Count and Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter, arguing that allusion is not merely a literary embellishment but a central organizing principle in the texts. The study adopts textual analysis and draws on intertextuality theory to guide its interpretation. The paper examines how both authors d
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Religious fiction, Nigerian (English)"

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McIntyre, Heather Dawn. "Mystical Motherhood: Blending Ecstatic Religious Experience with Feminist Discourse in Appalachian Fiction." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276621461.

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Tenshak, Juliet. "Bearing witness to an era : contemporary Nigerian fiction and the return to the recent past." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27349.

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The body of writing collectively referred to as third generation or contemporary Nigerian literature emerged on the international literary scene from about the year 2000. This writing is marked by attempts to negotiate contemporary identities, and it engages with various developments in the Nigerian nation: Nigeria’s past and current political and socio-economic state, different kinds of cultural hybridization as well as the writers increasing transnational awareness. This study argues that contemporary Nigerian fiction obsessively returns to the period from 1985-1998 as a historical site for
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Rine, Abigail. "Words incarnate : contemporary women’s fiction as religious revision." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1961.

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This thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent theorisations of the religious and its relationship to feminine subjectivity, this research considers the subversive potential of engaging with religious discourse through literature, and contributes to burgeoning criticism of feminist revisionary writing. The novels analysed in this thesis show, often in violent detail, that the way the religious dimension has been conceptuali
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Abatan, Adetutu Abosede. "Cultural perspectives and adolescent concerns in Nigerian young adult novels." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40308.

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Multicultural literature is a very important tool in today's classrooms because it enables teachers and students to learn about the practices, historical background for attitudes, norms and customs of other cultures and peoples.<br>Ph. D.
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Hohman, Xiamara Elena. "Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647.

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Wright, Margaret S. "Private vs. public conscience the contradiction between George Eliot's atheism and her use of traditional Christianity in her fiction /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Hartley, Gregory Philip. "Lower Sacraments: Theological Eating in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4329.

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For years, critics and fans of C. S. Lewis have noted his curious attentiveness to descriptions of food and scenes of eating. Some attempts have been made to interpret Lewis's use of food, but never in a manner comprehensively unifying Lewis's culinary expressions with his own thought and beliefs. My study seeks to fill this void. The introduction demonstrates how Lewis's culinary language aggregates through elements of his life, his literary background, and his Judeo-Christian worldview. Using the grammar of his own culinary language, I examine Lewis's fiction for patterns found within his me
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Wambui, Mary Theru. "Female identity in the post-millennial Nigerian novel: a study of Adichie, Atta, and Unigwe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020013.

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This thesis project examines the work of three female Nigerian authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta and Chika Unigwe. They are part of a growing number of young African writers who are receiving international acclaim and challenging narratives that have long defined the continent in pejorative terms. They question what it means to be female and African in a transcultural, global world but counter discourses that are both restrictive and prescriptive. Their female characters are not imaged in binary terms as either victims or villains. For all three writers, the African story has to be
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Smith, Cynthia M. "Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Study of Apocalyptic Cycles, Religion and Science, Religious Ethics and Secular Ethics, Sin and Redemption, and Myth and Preternatural Innocence." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/10.

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a timeless story about apocalyptic cycles, conflicts and similarities between religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and redemption, myth and preternatural innocence. Canticle is a very religious story about a monastery dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge from the time before nuclear war which devastated the world and reduced humanity to a pre-technological civilization. The Catholic Church and this monastery are portrayed as a bastion of civilization amidst barbarians and a light of faith amidst atheism. Unfo
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Gane, Gillian. "Breaking English: Postcolonial polyglossia in Nigerian representations of Pidgin and in the fiction of Salman Rushdie." 1999. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9950154.

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The literatures emerging from the postcolonial world bring new dimensions of linguistic heterogeneity to English literature, opening up rich possibilities for the heteroglossia and interanimation of languages celebrated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Two case studies illustrate the “breaking” and remaking of the English language in postcolonial literatures. Pidgins, oral vernaculars born in the colonial contact zone and developed outside institutional channels, compel our interest as linguistic realizations of a subaltern hybridity and as the most markedly “broken” varieties of English. Within Nigerian l
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Books on the topic "Religious fiction, Nigerian (English)"

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Okwelume, Obii. Stories my father told me: Junior fiction. Kraft Books Limited, 2016.

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Ali, Richard. City of memories: A novel. Black Palms Publishers, 2012.

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Ikay, Ezeh Law. Your church my shrine: Fiction. Kraft Books Limited, 2017.

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Oloruntoba-Oju, Diekara. When lemons grow on orange trees: Fiction. Kraft Books Limited, 2016.

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Osondu, E. C. Minions: Short stories. Tivolick, 1998.

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(Nigeria), Liberty Merchant Bank, ed. Little drops: An anthology of contemporary Nigerian short stories. L 'n G Publications, 1999.

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Stella, Ibagere. Naija stories: Our ram is haram and other stories. Edited by Odejayi Tola. NS Pub., 2013.

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Sola, Adeyemi, ed. Goddess of the storm and other stories: --a compilation of short stories by Nigerian authors. Smart Image, 1999.

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Toyin, Adewale-Gabriel, ed. Short stories by 16 Nigerian women. Ishmael Reed Pub., 2005.

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Udumukwu, Onyemaechi. Social responsibility in the Nigerian novel. Sherbrooke Associates, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Religious fiction, Nigerian (English)"

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Sinoimeri, Lea. "Heterolingualism and Transnational Poetics in Melatu Uche Okorie’s Short Fiction." In Ireland in the Concert of Nations. Presses universitaires de Caen, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4000/14c80.

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This chapter explores short fiction by Nigerian-born Irish author Melatu Uche Okorie against the backdrop of the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 which commemorated key events in the founding of the Irish state. It argues that Okorie’s texts throw into sharp relief the relationship between national identity and forced migration and raise crucial questions on Ireland’s national representation as a multicultural country. As they represent the experience of migrating to Ireland and navigating the dehumanising system of Direct Provision, they reflect on the possibilities and failures of building a
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Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Intelligibility and Meaningfulness in Multicultural Literature in English (Excerpts)." In Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195116540.003.0009.

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Abstract Literature In English is an increasingly international, even global, phenomenon. Writers all over the world, from the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and the West Indies as well as from the traditional centers in the British Isles and the United States, use English as a medium for fiction and poetry. One consequence has been that literature in English has become increasingly cross- or multicultural, as writing about a given culture is destined-because of its language, English, and its place of publication, usually London or New York-to have readers of many other cultures. This is not simply a
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Odidiomo, Folorunso. "Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches." In Postcolonial Linguistic Voices, edited by Eric A. Anchimbe and Stephen A. Mforteh. DE GRUYTER, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110260694.183.

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Sierhuis, Freya. "Centaurs of the Mind." In Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823445.003.0006.

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This chapter champions the erotic sonnets of the Caelica cycle, often ignored in favour of the philosophical and religious poems of the middle, and final section of the sequence; highlighting both their playful eroticism and philosophical depth. The love poetry which scrutinizes the relationship between the mistress and the lover in terms of projection and fetishization, on closer inspection turns out to share the same philosophical grounds as the poems which examine the mechanisms of spiritual slavery later in the cycle. While certain poems, such as Caelica 39, 43, and 56 explicate the link b
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Sill, Geoffrey. "Defoe, Prose Fiction, and the Novel." In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.4.

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Abstract Defoe has long been regarded as the father of the realistic English novel, but that label obscures the variety of prose fictional genres in which he worked. Recent scholarship sees his fictions as hybrids of genres such as biography (both historical and imaginative), history (both private or ‘secret’ as well as public), and moral or propagandistic tracts (advancing political, religious, or social purposes). The three volumes that comprise the life, adventures, and reflections of Robinson Crusoe exemplify this hybridity, each drawing on multiple genres to reveal different aspects of Cr
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Vitkus, Daniel. "Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580–1630." In Conversions. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099151.003.0012.

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The ‘bed-trick’) was a pervasive plot device in prose fiction and other forms of Renaissance literature but appeared late as a device in English drama. The arrival and proliferation of the bed-trick can be connected to the emergence of capitalism as a system founded on a basic structure of deception by means of substitution in an increasingly aggressive commodity exchange market. This chapter discusses those plays in which the substituted lover is a Moor. In each of these plays with a Moorish woman substitute, we encounter the Moor as placeholder, a degraded substitute and commodity, the monst
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Vallance, Edward. "‘The insane enthusiasm of the time’: remembering the regicides in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Britain and North America." In Radical Voices, Radical Ways. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526106193.003.0011.

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Edward Vallance studies the representation of three English regicides, John Dixwell, William Goffe and Edward Whalley, in early nineteenth-century British fiction via the treatment made of them in late eighteenth-century histories and biographies. Vallance raises the question of what provoked this flurry of literary interest in the three regicides and suggests that the main explanation is to be found in the fit between the story of Dixwell, Goffe and Whalley and the Romantic sensibility. Their story seemed to combine elements traditionally associated with Romantic aesthetic. Vallance then expl
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Blumberg, Ilana M. "“In Heaven or On Earth,” 1873–1881." In George Eliot. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845092.003.0013.

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Abstract “George Eliot” had become an unrivalled literary great and also a sacred celebrity. In her final novel, Daniel Deronda, Eliot pivoted from an English world bereft of religious enthusiasm or moral vision to imagine a dynamic future that was Jewish, Hebraic, and proto-Zionist. Working against the general English ignorance of Judaism, Eliot suggested that any Christian future depended on deeper understanding of its relation to its Jewish prehistory. The novel was characterized by a new, agnostic openness to all systems that required faith in order to be brought into being, from science t
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Loksing Moy, Olivia. "The Cloistered Cleric: Confessional, Confinement, and Hopkins’s Poetics of Wavering." In The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487177.003.0005.

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This chapter unifies Gothic tropes of the preceding three chapters (overhearing, the thrall of confinement, and fluctuating bodies) by considering the private writings of G.M. Hopkins. Hopkins’s poems voice the harrowing celebration of violence and the suffering of religious bodies, from priests to nuns. He literalizes the cloister as a site of trauma through the trappings of Catholic life. Read against the anti-Catholic subtext of 1790s Gothic novels and their caricatures of the Inquisition, Hopkins transforms the exaggerated, fictional Gothic figure of the foreign evil monk in British ninete
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Wessler, Heinz Werner. "Towards the Apocalyptic." In Religions, Mumbai Style. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192889379.003.0012.

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Abstract Bombay/Mumbai has been a primary literary city-space in South Asia from the nineteenth century onwards. Mumbai writing is a repercussion of the metropolitan as an experimental meeting place—and to some extent even melting point—of languages and codes, cultures and religions, traditions and identities in transformation. This chapter tries to identify the religious dimension in metropolitan fiction, providing a survey of relevant writers who publish in Hindi, Urdu, and English. In particular, it focuses on the challenging nature of metropolitan modernity and on the dystopic in two Mumba
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