If God meant to interfere: American literature and the rise of the Christian right
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and po...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right's strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 14, 2016) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 367 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781501703539 |
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| spelling | Douglas, Christopher 1968- Verfasser (DE-588)138916241 aut If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right Christopher Douglas Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press 2016 © 2016 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 367 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 14, 2016) The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right's strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1970-2010 gnd rswk-swf American fiction 20th century History and criticism American fiction 21st century History and criticism Christianity in literature Fundamentalism in literature Evangelikale Bewegung (DE-588)4153245-4 gnd rswk-swf Multikulturelle Gesellschaft (DE-588)4214151-5 gnd rswk-swf Postmoderne (DE-588)4115604-3 gnd rswk-swf Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd rswk-swf Fanatismus (DE-588)4224263-0 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Evangelikale Bewegung (DE-588)4153245-4 s Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 s Fanatismus (DE-588)4224263-0 s Multikulturelle Gesellschaft (DE-588)4214151-5 s Postmoderne (DE-588)4115604-3 s 1\p DE-604 Geschichte 1970-2010 z 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703539 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right |
| title_auth | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right |
| title_exact_search | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right |
| title_full | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right Christopher Douglas |
| title_fullStr | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right Christopher Douglas |
| title_full_unstemmed | If God meant to interfere American literature and the rise of the Christian right Christopher Douglas |
| title_short | If God meant to interfere |
| title_sort | if god meant to interfere american literature and the rise of the christian right |
| title_sub | American literature and the rise of the Christian right |
| topic | American fiction 20th century History and criticism American fiction 21st century History and criticism Christianity in literature Fundamentalism in literature Evangelikale Bewegung (DE-588)4153245-4 gnd Multikulturelle Gesellschaft (DE-588)4214151-5 gnd Postmoderne (DE-588)4115604-3 gnd Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd Fanatismus (DE-588)4224263-0 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd |
| topic_facet | American fiction 20th century History and criticism American fiction 21st century History and criticism Christianity in literature Fundamentalism in literature Evangelikale Bewegung Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Postmoderne Christentum Fanatismus Literatur USA |
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