Joan Anderson Ashford

Ecocritical Theology

Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with numerous ecological challenges, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neopastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. While some are successful, others turn away from the landscape's spirituality, retreating into technological inventions. The journeys of these fictional American heroes, this volume shows, mirror ongoing, theological, nuclear age convictions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780786469741
• ISBN-10: 0786469749
• Artikelnr.: 34747547

Autorenporträt

Joan Anderson Ashford lives in Conyers, Georgia, where she teaches Bible studies and writing classes.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Randy Malamud     
Introduction     
1. Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: An Ecocritical Look at Totem, Animism, and
the Rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, Run     
2. And the Word Was Made Metaphor: Oedipa's Religious Instant in Thomas
Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49     
3. Nature, God, and Politics: Deep Ecology and Spinozan Theory in Bernard
Malamud's The Fixer     
4. Apocalypse Visited: Toxic Consciousness in Don DeLillo's White Noise
     
5. Re- Weaving Master Metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the
Dead     
6. Interlocking Pillars of Oppression: Ecofeminist Theology in Toni
Morrison's Paradise     
7. Theories of Ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer     
8. Sophia's Table and Nuclear Narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The Road     
Conclusion     
Bibliography     
Index