Sacrifice and Atonement in Toni Morrison's Beloved and William Faulkner's Light in August

Reading Beloved and Light in August in dialogue with New Testament intertexts and theological traditions of Christian atonement reveals the redemptive logic underlying Sethe’s infanticide and the exorcistic expulsion of Beloved, and the sacrificial logic underlying Joe Christmas’s lynching. Triangul...

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Main Author: Busch, Austin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2024
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-259
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBF Christology
NBK Soteriology
Further subjects:B Christ figures
B lynching (in literature)
B violence (in literature)
B Sacrifice
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