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Author:

Rine, Abigail, author.

Title:

Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction / Abigail Rine.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 184 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Irigaray, Luce.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Holy, The, in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.

Contents:

Index. Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 'Your father who is tender like a furnace' : divinity, violence and desire in A.L. Kennedy's Original bliss -- Where literature, religion and feminism meet : critical perspectives -- 'In love with either/or' : religion and oppositional logic in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- 'Where God begins' : reconciling the female body and the divine word in Mich©·le Roberts' The book of Mrs. Noah and Impossible saints -- 'Sucked inot the black cloth' : religion, race and sexual shame in Alice Walker's By the light of my father's smile -- 'Your father who is tender like a furnace' : divinity, violence and desire in A.L. Kennedy's Original bliss -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

Drawing on the provocative recent work of feminist theorist this book illuminates the vital and subversive role of literature in rewriting notions of the sacred. Abigail Rine demonstrates through careful readings how a range of contemporary women writers think beyond traditional religious discourse and masculine models of subjectivity towards a new model of the sacred: one that seeks to reconcile the schism between the human and the divine, between the body and the word.

ISBN:

1780935986 (hbk.)
9781780935980 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)841186370

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)