If god meant to interfere: American literature and the rise of the Christian right
"Proposes to solve the question of how contemporary American literature has registered--or has failed to register--what is one of the most important cultural paradigm shifts of the postwar period, the astonishing expansion and empowerment of fundamentalist and conservative evangelical and Chris...
| Résumé: | "Proposes to solve the question of how contemporary American literature has registered--or has failed to register--what is one of the most important cultural paradigm shifts of the postwar period, the astonishing expansion and empowerment of fundamentalist and conservative evangelical and Christianity in the United States"-- Introduction: fiction in the God gap -- Multicultural entanglements. Multiculturalism, secularization, resurgence -- The poisonwood Bible's multicultural graft -- Christian multiculturalism in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Recapitulation and religious indifference in The plot against America -- Postmodern entanglements. Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sagan's Contact -- Evolution and theodicy in Blood meridian -- The postmodern gospel according to Dan -- Conclustion: politics, literature, method |
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| Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 339-357 Index: 359-367 |
| Description matérielle: | viii, 367 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-0211-4 978-1-5017-4681-9 978-1-5017-0211-2 |
