Reclaiming the Sacred : The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781560233558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 265 str.

Raymond-Jean Frontain

Opis

The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This long-awaited follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature--a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that explores how the Bible contributes to defining gay and lesbian spirituality.

Spis treści

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Preface to Second Edition
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: “Naked Man with Naked Man”
• Chapter 3. The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text
• Chapter 4. The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained
• Chapter 5. Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom
• Chapter 6. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”: Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature
• Chapter 7. Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's “The Life to Come”
• Chapter 8. The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall
• Chapter 9. Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart
• Chapter 10. Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Chapter 11. “All Men Are Divine”: Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Raymond J Frontain