Oracular Ventriloquism: Political Theology in The Female American
This essay scrutinizes a scene of colonial religious conversion that appears in the pseudonymous 1767 novel, The Female American. The protagonist's use of ventriloquism and indigenous technology to create the illusion of divine intervention is considered in the light of Carl Schmitt's sugg...
| Subtitles: | Roundtable discussion: Political theology of literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 7, Pages: 621-628 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Winkfield, Unca Eliza, The female American
/ Mission
/ Colonialism
/ Schmitt, Carl 1888-1985
/ Political theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDE Anglican Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Decisionism
B Feminism B Narrative B Colonialism B ventriloquism B Idolatry B Fiction |
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