Seeing in "the darkness, visible": White Supremacy and Original Sin in Marilynne Robinson's Jack
To call White supremacy "America's original sin" seems, at first glance, untenably imprecise, little more than an occasionally useful figure of speech. With the character of Jack Boughton, however, Marilynne Robinson turns this apparent cliché into a rich, often unsettling meditation...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Christianity & literature
Anno: 2022, Volume: 71, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 223-243 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | CD Cristianesimo; cultura KAJ Età contemporanea KBQ America settentrionale NCD Etica politica |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Marilynne Robinson
B White Supremacy B Original Sin B Paradise Lost B Jack B Predestination |
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| Riepilogo: | To call White supremacy "America's original sin" seems, at first glance, untenably imprecise, little more than an occasionally useful figure of speech. With the character of Jack Boughton, however, Marilynne Robinson turns this apparent cliché into a rich, often unsettling meditation on the relationship between race and religion in postwar American life. Subtly in Gilead and Home, then persistently in Jack, Robinson constructs compelling if at times unreliable narrative viewpoints, limited but nonetheless illuminating perspectives that draw the uneasy consciousness of being an ambivalent beneficiary to White supremacy, on one hand, and the burdened conscience characteristic of the Christian doctrine of original sin, on the other, into each other's orbit. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0019 |
