If god meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right
Multiculturalism, secularization, resurgenceThe poisonwood Bible's multicultural graft -- Christian multiculturalism in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Recapitulation and religious indifference in The plot against America -- Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sag...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Ithaca, NY, London
Cornell University Press
2016
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American fiction
> History and criticism
> Fundamentalism in literature
> Christianity and literature
> History
> Christianity in literature
> Evangelicalism in literature
> United States
> USA
> Literatur
> Evangelikale Bewegung
> Christentum
> Fanatismus
> Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
> Postmoderne
> Geschichte 1970-2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Multiculturalism, secularization, resurgenceThe poisonwood Bible's multicultural graft -- Christian multiculturalism in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Recapitulation and religious indifference in The plot against America -- Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sagan's Contact -- Evolution and theodicy in Blood meridian -- The postmodern gospel according to Dan. "Proposes to solve the question of how contemporary American literature has registered--or has failed to register--what is one of the most important cultural paradigm shifts of the postwar period, the astonishing expansion and empowerment of fundamentalist and conservative evangelical and Christianity in the United States"-- Introduction: fiction in the God gap -- Multicultural entanglements. Multiculturalism, secularization, resurgence -- The poisonwood Bible's multicultural graft -- Christian multiculturalism in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Recapitulation and religious indifference in The plot against America -- Postmodern entanglements. Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sagan's Contact -- Evolution and theodicy in Blood meridian -- The postmodern gospel according to Dan -- Conclustion: politics, literature, method |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 339-357 Index: 359-367 |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 367 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1501702114 1-5017-0211-4 9781501746819 978-1-5017-4681-9 9781501702112 978-1-5017-0211-2 |