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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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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 |
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Christ figures
B lynching (in literature) B violence (in literature) B Sacrifice |
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