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020 _a9781780935980
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082 0 4 _a823.009928709045
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100 1 _aRine, Abigail
245 1 0 _aIrigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction /
_cAbigail Rine
260 _aUSA:
_bBloombury Academic,
_c2013.
300 _ax, 184 p.:
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a1 Becoming Incarnate: Luce Irigaray on Religion Irigaray and the divine Irigaray and incarnation Literature as incarnated writing 2 Where Literature, Religion and Feminism Meet: Critical Perspectives Women’s revisionist writing Breaking new ground 3 ’In Love with Either/Or’: Religion and Oppositional Logic in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Opposites that tear the world apart Bodies and word(s) Chaste vessels and unholy harlots The Gilead within Conclusion 4 ’Where God Begins’: Reconciling the Female Body and the Divine Word in Michele Roberts’ The Book of Mrs Noah and Impossible Saints 'The Word that structures difference’ Subjecting the flesh Incarnating new words Rejection, revision, renewal Conclusion 5 ’Sucked into the Black Cloth’: Religion, Race and Sexual Shame in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile Religion as an imperialist force The wound of sexual shame The healing spirit of Eros Conclusion 6 ’Your Father Who is Tender Like a Furnace’: Divinity, Violence and Desire in A. L. Kennedy’s Original Bliss Someone to make her whole Helen and the apple The ’palpable gift’ of God’s judgement Coming to our senses Conclusion
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHoly, The, in literature.
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