RT Article
T1 Buddhism Between Worlds: Contested Liberations in Kipling, Salinger, and Head
JF Religion & literature
VO 49
IS 3
SP 23
OP 47
A1 Alpert, Avram
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/167239449X
AB This essay considers the place of Buddhism in three diverse novels by Rudyard Kipling, J.D. Salinger, and Bessie Head. By reading these novels together, I hope to break some of the monolithic assumptions about Buddhism that still pervade in literary studies. I show that each of these novels takes up a different aspect of how Buddhism coordinates the relation between political and spiritual liberation in both progressive and regressive ways. In so doing, I show the extent to which literary criticism's lack of investment in new trends in critical Buddhist studies has obscured our understanding of canonical texts.
K1 Buddhism
K1 Buddhists
K1 Christianity
K1 KIPLING, Rudyard, 1865-1936
K1 SALINGER, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010