And the birds began to sing : religion and literature in post-colonial cultures

Preface. Acknowledgements. Jamie S. SCOTT: Introduction. Onward, Christian Britons!. I CHRISTIANITY AND COLONIALISM. IRELAND. Jo. O'DONOGHUE: A pox on both their houses. Post-Colonial Religious Conflict in the Belfast Novels of Brian Moore. CANADA. Heather SANDERSON: God this and God that and amen. Religious Discourse in the Fiction of Timothy Findley. William CLOSSON JAMES: You have to discover it in some other way. Native Symbols as Appropriated by Margaret Atwood and Marian Engel. Priscilla L. WALTON: It is, indeed, one good story, that one. Thomas King's Parodic Treatment of Genesis. AUSTRALIA. Nicholas BIRNS: Religions are poems. Spirituality in Les Murray's Poetry. James TULIP: David Malouf's Remembering Babylon. Issues of Race and Spiritual Transformation. Jamie S. SCOTT: Custodians of a British prison camp. Re-Presenting the Christian Missionary in Post-Colonial Aboriginal Fiction. NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Joost DAALDER: The Religious Experience in R.A.K. Mason's Poetry. Trevor JAMES: Beyond Puritanism. Post-Colonialism's Awful Disease in the Novels of Maurice Gee. Patrick HOLLAND: Maybe there aren't words for us yet. (Re)Constructing Religion, Culture, and Family in Keri Hulme's the bone people. Edward WATTS: The Only Teller of Big Truths. Epeli Hau'ofa's Tales of the Tikongs and the Biblical Contexts of Post-Colonialism. THE AFRICAS. Trevor JAMES: Locating the Sacred. J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. Ken GOODWIN: Seed wrapped in wonders. Representations of Religion in the Poetry of Christopher Okigbo. Ashton NICHOLS: If there is one God, fine, there will be others. Dialogical Theology in the Novels of Chinua Achebe. Bruce ROSS: The Dark, Fearful Bush. Loss and Restoration in Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard. Oliver LOVESEY: The Post-Colonial Crisis of Representation and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Religious Allegory. II EMPIRE AND WORLD RELIGIONS. THE CARIBBEAN. Patrick TAYLOR: Post-Colonial Encounters. Paule Marshall's Widow's Praisesong and George Lamming's Daughter's Adventure, Carol MORRELL: I often wonder who I am. Voodoo Character Transformations in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Gordon COLLIER: At the gate of cultures. Religion, Mythology, and Folk-Belief in West Indian Poetry. INDIA. Doireann MacDERMOTT: Abolishing the Darkness. V.S. Naipaul's Spiritual Journey. Chelva KANAGANAYAKAM: Widows, Priests and Erring Householders. Religion and the Writings of Anita Desai. Bishnupriya GHOSH: Appearance and Eclipse. Cognitive Dissonance and Cultural Negotiation in the Hindu Fiction of Kamala Markandaya. Brinda BOSE: In Good Faith? Shadows of Hinduism on Expatriate Identity in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. AFTERWORD. Jamie S. SCOTT: A Praxis of Equity. Reading Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures. List of Contributors. Index.