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New PDF release: Desire and the Divine: Feminine Identity in White Southern

16 February 2018 adminLiterary Criticism Theory

By Kathaleen E. Amende

In this groundbreaking learn, Kathaleen E. Amende explores the works and lives of late-twentieth-century southern girls writers to teach how conservative Christian beliefs of femininity formed notions of faith, sexuality, and tool within the South. Drawing from the paintings of authors resembling Rosemary Daniell and Connie may possibly Fowler, whose characters -- just like the authors themselves -- develop up believing that Jesus will be a girl's first "boyfriend," Amende demonstrates many ways during which those writers commingled the sexual and the sacred.

Amende additionally seems to be on the writings of Lee Smith, Sheri Reynolds, Dorothy Allison, and Valerie Martin to debate how southern girls authors and their characters grappled with opposing cultural expectancies. usually of their paintings, characters mingle religious devotion and carnal love, making an allowance for salvation regardless of rejecting conventional roles or behaviors. In Martin's a up to date Martyr, novitiate Claire disavows southern norms of femininity -- courtship, marriage, and motherhood -- yet submits to Jesus as she could to a husband. Teenage protagonist Ninah Huff in Reynolds's Rapture of Canaan imagines that her out-of-wedlock baby is the offspring of Christ as a result of her conviction that Jesus was once current in the course of notion.

Grounded in cultural and gender reviews and proficient through ancient, non secular, and devotional literature, Amende's well timed and available publication demonstrates the tenuous divide among female sexuality and Christianity in a southern context.

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