RT Article
T1 Ursula Le Guin and Theological Alterity
JF Literature and theology
VO 30
IS 2
SP 182
OP 197
A1 Anderson, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663447780
AB The imbrication of politics and religion is becoming a matter of growing interest for young adult writers and readers. Contemporary authors re-deploy the tropes of fantasy writing to craft a mode in which the fantastical is sacred and world creation involves engagement with religious difference and fostering reconciliation. This article focuses on the recent work of Ursula Le Guin to explore recent attention to religious difference in young adult literature: both differences between between people and a more radical alterity between humanity and divinity. Mayra Rivera's postcolonial theology of transcendence, in which God is always beyond human grasp but still implicated in human relations, speaks eloquently to Le Guin's fiction.
DO 10.1093/litthe/frw018