Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology

ISBN-13: 9781350231733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

Taylor Driggers; Brian Attebery; Dimitra Fimi

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Series Editor Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Worlds of Difference Structure and methodology Against apologetics Deconstruction, theology, and feminism Fantasy: definitions, critical approaches, and figurations Chapter One: Saving Face?: Fantasy, Ethical Alterity, and Deconstruction Defining deconstruction, deconstructing definitions Vive la différance Theological deconstruction Deconstructive theology The call to advent-ure; or, Derrida among the dragons Deconstructing Christianity in The Passion of New Eve ‘Holy places are dark places’: facing the other in Till We Have Faces Breaking the circle: religion without religion in The Left Hand of Darkness Conclusions Chapter Two: Dragons in the Neighbourhood: The Fantastic Discourse of Femininity ‘A world all her own’: Hélène Cixous and écriture feminine Is fantasy feminine? The laugh of the dragon Mère Christianity: women’s language and holy wisdom in Till We Have Faces ‘The fecund darkness’: ‘bisexual’ religion and society in The Left Hand of Darkness Conclusions Chapter Three: Hetero-doxies: Fantasy and the Problem of Divine Womanhood Riddles in the dark: Luce Irigaray’s feminist mysticism Becoming Psyche: identity and Eros in Till We Have Faces ‘Her own mythological artefact’: The Passion of New Eve and the theatre of divine womanhood Conclusions Chapter Four: Drag(on) Theology: The Queer Strangers of Fantasy Queer(ing) definitions Queering theology Undressing orthodoxy: Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology Theology of failure: Tonstad’s queer messianism Drag(on) theology: queer incarnations and fantastic embodiment Double drag: sacred parody in The Passion of New Eve Queer failure in/as worldbuilding: mystical perversions in The Left Hand of Darkness Walking the Dragons’ Way: sacred multiplicity in Earthsea Conclusions Monstrous Messianisms: Conclusions Divine speech and matter: Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower Swimming against the tides: Neon Yang’s Tensorate series Gods and seduction: N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance trilogy Awaiting eucatastrophe Notes Bibliography Index