Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction /
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 contemp...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury collections
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Table of Contents:
- 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.