Postsecularism and the ethics of ethno-religious pluralism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Zadie Smith's NW
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Christopher J. Tumminello
نام ساير پديدآوران
Rizzuto, Nicole
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Georgetown University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
59
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-71231-5
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
M.A.
نظم درجات
English
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Georgetown University
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
What I aim to accomplish below is an analysis of the commitment exhibited within The Satanic Verses and NW to portraying the complexities of the relationship between the religious and the secular in a postcolonial and postmodern age. Through a thorough and intricate depiction of the presence of difference in the urban center of London, both texts are clearly committed to establishing an ethics of ethno-religious pluralism in the Western metropolis. I propose that this appeal to ethics mirrors that of Kwame Anthony Appiah's notion of the ethical universal, since both texts make narrative and aesthetic maneuvers that emphasize their concern with humanism and the power of the individual. In The Satanic Verses this is on display through a form of metafiction that implicates all narratives in the web of discourse, resulting in an equivalence of all texts, from the novel itself to the Qur'ān. While Rushdie was evidently eager to contest the ideas of fundamentalist Islam throughout the novel, this metafictional move confirms that even his own authority is highly questionable, and thus his own text is up for equal contestation. Combined with its attentiveness to Islamic beliefs and history, The Satanic Verses illustrates a type of critical, postsecular ambivalence that values tolerance, and the existence of a pluralism that requires constant confrontation and negotiation.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Ethics; Literature; Political science
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;NW;Pluralism;Rushdie, Salman;Smith, Zadie;The Satanic Verses
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