ABSTRACT
This article sits at the crossroads of the critical theory of religion and postcolonial literary studies, an emerging discipline which makes vital contributions to the new interdisciplinary spaces of literature and theology. Much of our vocabulary for talking about ‘religion’ in the context of postcolonial literatures is problematic as it emerges, predominantly, from the monotheistic traditions and modern European schools of rational thought. I will argue that it is the creative writers within the region of the Caribbean that are creating a new discourse; one that engages with the problems of this historical baggage, but also formulates a new libratory discursive space in which concepts such as ‘religion’ and the ‘sacred’ can be re-imagined.
