ABSTRACT

Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination (2013) situates secularism and religious discourse within national and colonial contexts. His literary critical approach, which brings postcolonial critiques of nationalism to bear on the literary registration of secularism, has informed my own work in sub-Saharan African fiction. I focus on Ratti's postcolonial analysis of the secular; his conceptualization of the postsecular as an imaginative and recuperative humanist ethic that foregrounds ‘powerful modes of living together in spite of the divides of religion and nation’ (Ratti 2013, xviii); and finally how the Nigerian writer, Okey Ndibe, engages with the secular, religion, and the nation as flawed, incomplete projects.

摘要

马纳夫·拉蒂 (Manav Ratti) 的后世俗想象(2013) 将世俗主义和宗教话语置于国家和殖民地背景下。他的文学批评方法将对民族主义的后殖民批评带入了对世俗主义的文学登记，这影响了我自己在撒哈拉以南非洲小说中的工作。我关注拉蒂对世俗的后殖民分析；他将后世俗概念化为一种富有想象力和复原力的人文主义伦理，强调“尽管存在宗教和民族分歧，但仍能共同生活的强大模式”（Ratti 2013，xviii）；最后，尼日利亚作家 Okey Ndibe 如何将世俗、宗教和国家视为有缺陷、不完整的项目。