1st Edition
Provincializing the Bible Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature
By Norman W. Jones
Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.S. literature? More pointedly, why would a book indelibly allied with a long history of institutionalized oppressions play a supporting role—and not simply as an object of critique—in a wide variety of landmark literary representations of marginalized... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Bible as Ghost in Faulkner’s Novels; 2: The Literary as Biblical; 3: Eggshell Shibboleths as Intertextual Marginalization; 4: Postsecular Reading as Eucharistically Queer; Conclusion
Biography
Norman W. Jones is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Author of The Bible and Literature: The Basics as well as Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative, he is also co-editor of The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences.
