Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
Religion and the Contemporary Novel
Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-009-77255-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The New Believers identifies a group of today's most important novelists, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, and George Saunders, who have challenged the trend of depressing and defeated novelistic endings by turning to spiritual beliefs, powers, and presences. Through spiritual belief, these writers use the novel to imagine more hopeful and caring ways of being in the world, ones that can challenge Christian Nationalism and neoliberal capitalism and empower left and liberal causes, such as women's rights, migrant rights, animal rights, and care for the environment. Through a survey of the current state of novel studies, close readings of key works by each writer, and new archival research on Margaret Atwood and J. M. Coetzee, The New Believers shows how these writers transform novelistic realism through spiritual realism and reshape the current debate about religion, secularization, and literature.
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Introduction: the new believers; 1. Margaret Atwood and the better story; 2. J. M. Coetzee, curious belief, and the life of contemplation; 3. Junot Díaz, cosmic vision, and radical hope; 4. George Saunders and the Buddhist order of compassion; The spiritual life of the novel: ontology, subjectivity, collectivity, teleology.
