Desire and the divine: feminine identity in white southern women's writing
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1. Verfasser: Amende, Kathaleen E. 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2013
Schriftenreihe:Southern literary studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Southern women, desire, and the divine -- Erotic churches and sacred bedrooms -- Resolving the parental conflict -- Mysticism and masochism or religious ecstasy and sadomasochistic delight -- Contemporary repercussions
In this groundbreaking study, Kathaleen E. Amende considers the works and lives of late-twentieth-century southern women writers to explore how conservative Christian ideals of femininity shaped notions of religion, sexuality, and power in the South. Drawing from the work of authors like Rosemary Daniell and Connie May Fowler, whose characters-like the authors themselves-grow up believing that Jesus should be a girl's first "boyfriend," Amende demonstrates many ways in which these writers commingled the sexual and the sacred. Amende also looks at the writings of Lee Smith, Sheri Reynolds, Dorot
Beschreibung:x, 162 pages
ISBN:9780807150399
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9780807150405
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