Liliana M Naydan

Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction

Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses representations of belief in the polarized post-9/11 Age of Terror. Naydan tracks how both major and less-known contemporary authors of diverse religious heritages negotiate religious and ideological differences that involve secularism and atheism on the one hand and religious fundamentalism and fanaticism on the other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487459
• ISBN-10: 1611487455
• Artikelnr.: 49463057

Autorenporträt

By Liliana M. Naydan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paradox of Religion in America and
American Literature Chapter 1: Uncertain Faith for Islamic Others after
9/11: Capitalist and Religious Fundamentalisms in Mohsin Hamid's The
Reluctant Fundamentalist and Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land Chapter
2: Beyond Religious, Atheistic, and Capitalist Fundamentalisms for
Post-9/11 Jewish Others: The Rhetoric of Art in Philip Roth's Everyman and
Exit Ghost Chapter 3: Toward a Post-9/11 Rhetoric of Catholic Mystery:
Terror and Fundamentalism in Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof" and Point Omega
Chapter 4: Emergent Varieties of Religious Experience from a Protestant
Perspective: Fundamentalist, Fanatical, and Hybrid Faith in John Updike's
"Varieties of Religious Experience" and Terrorist Chapter 5: Between
Protestantism and Pantheism: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Nature, Science, and
Religion in Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder and Flight Behavior
Conclusion: Memorializing 9/11 through Interfaith Dialogue with and about
American Fiction about Religion Bibliography Index About the Author