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03445aam a2200409 i 4500 001 17EBB45C440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 231021s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023035307 020 $a 0231214197 020 $a 9780231214193 020 $a 0231214189 020 $a 9780231214186 035 $a (OCoLC)1406829866 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SVP $d OCLCO $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ2645.E24 $b W35 2024 082 00 $a 848/.91209 $2 23/eng/20231220 100 1 $a Wallace, Cynthia $q (Cynthia R.), $e author. 245 14 $a The literary afterlives of Simone Weil : $b feminism, justice, and the challenge of religion / $c Cynthia R. Wallace. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 299 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Gender, theory, and religion 520 $a "The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has provoked both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also influenced an extraordinary range of literature focused not only on her ideas but also on her person, a fact that has received only very limited scholarly attention. The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil reads Weil's presence in literary prose and poetry, focusing on writers who have devoted decades of attention to Weil, as in the cases of Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, and Mary Gordon, and who have written full poetic sequences or books, such as Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen, Anne Carson, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn. Given the challenges of Weil's attraction to cruciform Christianity in a secular age, not to mention her theorized and embodied ethic of self-diminishment, the book seeks to understand Weil's enormous appeal to writers-and especially the women who have been her most devoted interlocutors. Ultimately, it argues that writing to Weil, of Weil, and in the tradition of Weil allows these writers to grapple with the linked harms and possibilities of religious belief, self-giving attention, and the kind of moral seriousness required by the ethical and political crises of late modernity, even against the backdrop of a feminist rejection of self-sacrifice. What is risky in Weil is precisely what is worthwhile, the very challenge that compels so many writers to creatively attend to her"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Force : Weil as source for Adrienne Rich's expanding solidarities -- Attention : Annie Dillard waits for God with Weil -- Hunger : Weil's fraught sacrifice in Mary Gordon's fiction -- (De)creation : Simone Weil among the poets. 600 10 $a Weil, Simone, $d 1909-1943 $x Influence. 600 17 $a Weil, Simone, $d 1909-1943 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00027675 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wallace, Cynthia R. $t Literary afterlives of Simone Eeil $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2024] $z 9780231560238 $w (DLC) 2023035308 830 0 $a Gender, theory, and religion 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717013849.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17EBB45C440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search