Ann Genzale

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction highlights how religious beliefs intersect with questions of national belonging in the work of contemporary American novelists. Religious practices serve as a means of critiquing exclusionary constructions of national identity and provide models for alternate ways of belonging.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605528
• ISBN-10: 1793605521
• Artikelnr.: 60072499

Autorenporträt

Ann M. Genzale is assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Postsecularism and Contemporary American Fiction
Chapter 1: Religious Syncretization and Survivance in Louise Erdrich's
Reservation Novels
Chapter 2: Unchurched Preachers and Wanton Women: Spirituality, Community,
and Nationhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paradise
Chapter 3: Religious Performance in Diaspora in the Novels of Cristina
García
Afterward: Toward a Global Postsecular Studies