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Hark : a novel
In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual confusion, many folks are searching for peace, salvation, and--perhaps most immediately--just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner, an unwitting guru whose technique of \"Mental Archery\"--a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and, well, archery--is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It's a role he never asked for, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist, a gentle Swedish kidnapper, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. In this social satire of the highest order, Sam Lipsyte, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters. Hark is a smart, incisive look at men, women, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic, ridiculous, and often dangerous world.
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Visitation
Thin, round, steel spectacles resting on her inconsequential nose, the upper rim merging with her silver eyebrows. [...]another one and then another till we folded and twisted into sleep, meeting characters from all those stories in life and blood in our dreams. The strange presence of the rather diabolic figure stayed with me constantly all those years, except for about two years when she did not appear in my dreams and I thought she had died a natural death or, thankfully, given me up.
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Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history
This paper focuses on the ways in which watershed events in Indonesian national history are illuminated in a work of fiction, and how a Javanese worldview gives rise to particular, localized understandings of the events. The work of fiction is Sitok Srengenge's first novel, Menggarami burung terbang (Seasoning the flying bird), the action of which is bracketed by the years 1948 and 1965. The protagonists of the novel are unassuming village folk who are bewildered at the political events and mass brutality that overtake them, and whose understanding of the world is filtered through natural omens. Such a worldview is described by Quinn (1992:124) as a 'teleological' view of phenomena, in other words a belief that everything that exists and happens - including natural omens - does so for a final purpose, that there is a reason for everything.
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\La colonie du nouveau monde: Condé's Pessimistic Views of a Caribbean Utopian Community\
Since the late seventies, Haitians have migrated toward the Eastern Caribbean and sometimes as far as the Guianas. Today, Haitian communities are present almost everywhere whithin the circum-Caribbean region. Isolated and estranged from the local population, Haitians try to survive and assist their families left at home. Invisible and humiliated migrants, they appear in fictional works very often as symbols of the predicament of the region. This paper examine the part played by a group of Haitians who join a community led by a Guadeloupean ' guru' in Maryse Condé's La colonie du nouveau monde. It seeks to identify the symbolic meaning ascribed to their experience by Condé.
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Theosophistries
While the ecumenical showcasing of Indian religious leaders in the West took place in the context of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 discussed in the first chapter, the Theosophical Society was an important intermediary for the dissemination of modern Hinduism and Buddhism. The Theosophical Society was founded earlier, in New York in 1875, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Flirting with Dayananda’s Arya Samaj and integrating itself into the Buddhist and Hindu aspects of spiritual tradition, Theosophy was a cosmopolitan alternative when compared with the parochial nature of the Raj. Founded in the transidiomatic
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Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism
Is Guru English a euphemization of Hindu English, itself standing in for other “Indic” religions? Are South Asian and diasporic Muslims also in dialogue with the multilayered phenomenon of Guru English, whether as register, discourse, environment, or cosmopolitanism? Putting aside the question of its antecedents, is Guru English to be regarded as a more generalized symptom of the crisis of Indian secularism?
In calling for an anthropology of secularism, Talal Asad has challenged the normative evaluation of particular societies according to the universalizing parameters of Western rationality. The epistemic category of the secular has to be differentiated from the political
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