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03360aam a2200397 i 4500 001 D303BF10C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240202013317 008 230219s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023002148 020 $a 1032454725 020 $a 9781032454726 020 $a 1032454687 020 $a 9781032454689 035 $a (OCoLC)1360294938 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS151 C86 2023 100 1 $a Cunningham, Scarlett, $e author. 245 10 $a Explorations of spirituality in American women's literature : $b the aging woman in the image of God / $c Scarlett Cunningham. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 204 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 12 520 $a "This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women's spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature treats aging and spirituality as major, connected themes. It demonstrates that such literature interacts meaningfully with feminist theology, social science research on aging and body image, attachment theory, and narrative identity theory. The book provides an interdisciplinary context for the relationship between aging and spirituality in order to confirm that US women's writing provides unique illustrations of the interconnections between aging and spirituality signaled by other fields. This book demonstrates that relationships between the human and divine remain a consistent and valuable feature of contemporary women's literature and that the divine-human relationship is under constant literary revision"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The gift of old age and Flannery O'Connor's Theophanies -- Religious beautification and going gray in Flannery O'Connor's "A stroke of good fortune" -- Orphanhood and spiritual development : exploring intergenerational loss and conflict in Joyce Carol Oates' fiction -- The image of the aging woman as vessel in Alicia Suskin Ostriker's late poetry -- Aging, race, and divine embodiment in Lucille Clifton's poetry -- Aging, desire, and Marian theology In Mary Szybist's Incarnadine -- A feminist Pentecostal perspective of aging : reflecting the Holy Spirit in Anne Babson's Messiah and Polite occasions -- Coda : observations on attachment theory, gerotranscendence, and late American women's spiritual literature. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Older women in literature. 650 0 $a God in literature. 650 0 $a Spirituality in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cunningham, Scarlett. $t Explorations of spirituality in American women's literature $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 $z 9781003377177 $w (DLC) 2023002149 830 0 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v v. 12. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042759.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D303BF10C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search