Rine, Abigail

Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction / Abigail Rine - USA: Bloombury Academic, 2013. - x, 184 p.: 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 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

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English fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Holy, The, in literature.

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