Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction Rine, Abigail creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2013 monographic eng remote 1 online resource Drawing on the provocative recent work of feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction illuminates the vital and subversive role of literature in rewriting notions of the sacred. Abigail Rine demonstrates through careful readings how a range of contemporary women writers - from Margaret Atwood to Michèle Roberts and Alice Walker - think beyond traditional religious discourse and masculine models of subjectivity towards a new model of the sacred: one that seeks to reconcile the schism between the human and the divine, between the body and the word. Alo. Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Divinity; The religious; Incarnation; Notes; Chapter 1 Becoming Incarnate: Luce Irigaray on Religion; Irigaray and the divine; Irigaray and incarnation; Literature as incarnated writing; Notes; Chapter 2 Where Literature, Religion and Feminism Meet: Critical Perspectives; Women's revisionist writing; Breaking new ground; Notes; Chapter 3 'In Love with Either/Or': Religion and Oppositional Logic in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Opposites that tear the world apart; Bodies and word(s). Chaste vessels and unholy harlotsThe Gilead within; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 'Where God Begins': Reconciling the Female Body and the Divine Word in Michèle Roberts' The Book of Mrs Noah and Impossible Saints; 'The Word that structures difference'; Subjecting the flesh; Incarnating new words; Rejection, revision, renewal; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5 'Sucked into the Black Cloth': Religion, Race and Sexual Shame in Alice Walker's By the Light of My Father's Smile; Religion as an imperialist force; The wound of sexual shame; The healing spirit of Eros; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 6 'Your Father Who is Tender Like a Furnace': Divinity, Violence and Desire in A.L. Kennedy's Original BlissSomeone to make her whole; Helen and the apple; The 'palpable gift' of God's judgement; Coming to our senses; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Abigail Rine. Includes bibliographical references and index. Irigaray, Luce Irigaray, Luce English fiction Women authors History and criticism English fiction 20th century History and criticism English fiction 21st century History and criticism Holy, The, in literature Roman anglais 20e siècle Histoire et critique Roman anglais 21e siècle Histoire et critique Sacré dans la littérature Literary studies: general Literary studies: from c 1900 Literary theory LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh English fiction English fiction Women authors Holy, The, in literature 1900-2099 fast PR1286.W6 823.009928709045 Bloomsbury collections Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction Rine, Abigail. (OCoLC)841186370 9781472514523 1472514521 9781472508669 1472508661 9781472543639 1472543637 9781780935980 1780935986 1334444 Proquest Ebook Central http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472543639?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections N$T 130723 20250218182655.0 in00005617855 eng