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Jeanette Winterson and Religion: New Directions in Religion and Literature

Autor Dr Emily McAvan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 dec 2019
Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350096905
ISBN-10: 1350096903
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria New Directions in Religion and Literature

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers the full range of Winterson's work from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry to The Stone Gods

Notă biografică

Emily McAvan is Sessional Tutor at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Postmodern Sacred (2012).

Cuprins

1. Introduction2. 'I Love Both of Them': Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges are not the Only Fruit 3. 'Colours and Folly': Retelling the Noah Story in Boating For Beginners4. The Love Event in The Passion5. Sexing the Cherry and the Monstrous Maternal6. Written on the Body and the Negative Theology Tradition7. Art & Lies: Literature in a Neoliberal Age8. Gut Symmetries, New Physics and Kabbalah9. The PowerBook and Virtual Culture10.Lighthousekeeping and the Religious Vocation11.The Stone Gods' Climate Change Apocalypse12. Conclusion

Recenzii

McAvan's text does not disappoint in the insights it offers. As well as creating a thorough and informative study of Winterson's major works, McAvan also succeeds in her overall aim - to establish that, with a reappearance of the divine in the secular cultural space of postmodernism, Winterson creates an art of major import through a "return of the sacred in the post-secular world" (170).
Emily McAvan incisively interrogates a theme conspicuous by its absence in most extant criticism of Winterson's writing: the fierce interplay of religion with sexuality, gender and power. Here queerness and holiness are interwoven as visionary, and Winterson herself is claimed as prophetic. In this expansive book, McAvan highlights Winterson's generative deconstruction of binaries such as secular and sacred, sameness and otherness, belief and unbelief, and identifies her as a perceptive religious thinker.
At long last a powerful study of a queer and feminist writer that brings the body and the spirit together. In this finely written book Em McAvan turns to the postmodern sacred to provide a rigorous theoretical framework for a reading of Jeanette Winterson's novels of lesbian and bisexual love.