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03751aam a2200445 i 4500 001 3FD3018C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210805t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021037287 020 $a 1350231738 020 $a 9781350231733 035 $a (OCoLC)1252050529 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d ICW $d OCLCO $d YUS $d GZM $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3435 $b .D75 2022 082 00 $a 809.3/8766 $2 23 100 1 $a Driggers, Taylor, $e author. 245 10 $a Queering faith in fantasy literature : $b fantastic incarnations and the deconstruction of theology / $c Taylor Driggers. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2022. 300 $a xii, 235 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Perspectives on fantasy 520 $a "Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making it uniquely positioned to imaginatively re-envision Christian theology from a position of difference. Having an affinity for the monstrous and the 'other', and a preoccupation with desires and forms of embodiment that subvert dominant understandings of reality, fantasy texts hold hitherto unexplored potential for articulating queer and feminist religious perspectives. Focusing primarily on fantastic literature of the mid- to late twentieth century, this book examines how Christian theology in the genre is dismantled, re-imagined and transformed from the margins of gender and sexuality. Aligning fantasy with Derrida's theories of deconstruction, Taylor Driggers explores how the genre can re-figure God as the 'other' excluded and erased from theology. Through careful readings of C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea novels, Driggers contends that fantasy can challenge cis-normative, heterosexual, and patriarchal theology. Also engaging with the theories of HeÌleÌne Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and Linn Marie Tonstad, this book demonstrates that whilst fantasy cannot save Christianity from itself, nor rehabilitate it for marginalised subjects, it confronts theology with its silenced others in a way that bypasses institutional debates on inclusion and leadership, asking how theology might be imagined otherwise"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : worlds of difference -- Saving face? : fantasy, ethical alterity and deconstruction -- Dragons in the neighborhood : the fantastic discourse of femininity -- Hetero-doxies : fantasy and the problem of divine womanhood -- Drag(on) theology : the queer strangeness of fantasy -- Monstrous messianisms : conclusions. 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Queer theory. 650 0 $a Christianity in literature. 650 7 $a Christianity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859755 650 7 $a Fantasy fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920710 650 7 $a Queer theory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739572 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Driggers, Taylor. $t Queering faith in fantasy literature $b 1. $d New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 $z 9781350231740 $w (DLC) 2021037288 830 0 $a Perspectives on fantasy. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023247.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3FD3018C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search