Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367667160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Norman W. Jones

Opis

Religious conviction constitutes one of the most powerful forces shaping our global present and future. Given the increasingly pluralistic cast of American letters as well as declining biblical literacy in American culture, it is telling that many contemporary authors have not simply rejected the Bible as a reactionary and oppressive relic. Inst

Spis treści

Introduction: A Postage-Stamp Bible

1 The Bible as Ghost in Faulkner’s Novels

2 The Literary as Biblical: Beloved and Faulkner

3 Eggshell Shibboleths as Intertextual Marginalization: Ceremony and So Far from God

4 Postsecular Reading as Eucharistically Queer: The Book of Salt

Conclusion: A Postsecular Bible?

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Norman W. Jones is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Author of The Bible and Literature: The Basics as well as Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative, he is also co-editor of The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences.