Pathway under construction, spirituality in unexpected places
Nadine Gordimer's recent fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ileana Dimitriu |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-47 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2014.985029 |
| OpenAlex | W2118154541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article explores new tendencies in the more recent post-apartheid writings of South African Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer. The context is the current critical debate on a resurgence of preoccupations with forms of spirituality broadly understood. The concept of secular spirituality (Cornell Du Toit and Cedric Mayson, eds. 2006. Secular Spirituality as a Contextual Critique of Religion. Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, Pretoria), is employed, which – having its roots in Walter Benjamin’s understandings of “profane illumination” – has been retrieved by, inter alia, Heelas and Woodhead (Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, eds. 2005. The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion Is Giving Way to Spirituality (Oxford: Blackwell), who refer to “spiritual revolution” or “subjective-life spirituality”. The article suggests that postcolonial studies – in its more recent, “less politically driven and more critically reflective phase” (see the introduction to Janet Wilson, Cristina Şandru, and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds. 2010. Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium. 1–13. London: Routledge) – has become more amenable to explorations of spirituality in representations of the literary imaginary
Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Literature · Nobel laureate · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Spirituality · The Imaginary · African cultural and philosophical studies · Psychology · South African History and Culture · Theological Perspectives and Practices · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies
The Postcolonial Biblical Reader
Provincializing Europe
Translating Kali's Feast
And the Birds Began to Sing
Religion, spirituality and the social sciences
The politics of location
Nadine Gordimer's the pickup and the desert romance tradition in post/colonial Anglophone fiction
Beyond the national
South African Music
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
The Novels of Nadine Gordimer
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |