{"title":"Fears and joys of writing in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño","authors":"Aníbal González","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frae028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frae028","url":null,"abstract":"Roberto Bolaño’s achievement is to have written “literature about literature” that nevertheless feels profoundly alive, immediate, and exciting. This literature recognizes the intimidating and ethically dubious aspects of fiction writing, and of writing as a whole, while also imbuing its storytelling with feelings of energy and exultation. This article discusses Bolaño’s novel Distant Star and his other works, including the novel Amuleto. Drawing upon a framework of religion, secularism, and postsecularism, this article shows how Bolaño follows an ethics of writing which turns the fear of writing into a joyful and liberating activity.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities","authors":"Justin D Livingstone","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frae012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frae012","url":null,"abstract":"Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, a novel embedded in the Igbo traditions of Odinani, is acclaimed as a literary exercise in alternative cosmology. Yet the book is also seriously engaged with Christian theology. This essay argues that the novel’s account of wrongdoing, repentance, and remission, offers a careful analysis of the dynamics of Christian forgiveness, sharpened by its Igbo cosmological perspective. The tensions that it dramatizes between an honor-shame code and the demands of forgiveness, simultaneously critique the logic of retribution and problematize romantic and therapeutic models of forgiving. By dwelling on the complications of resolving offences, and opening taxing questions around political injustices, An Orchestra of Minorities pushes towards a refined moral grammar in which forgiveness is not impossible but routinely unfinished.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought","authors":"Christine Hsiu-Chin Chou","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frae002","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to ascertain the ethico-religiousness of “God’s Gardeners” in Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, an eco-religious cult featured by the “self-rescue effort” rather than “God-relationship”. Through examining Atwood’s secularist imagination vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s ideas about ethico-religiousness, the relationship between Atwood’s post-Christian speculation and Christianity will be re-estimated. Starting with a comparative overview of the two writers’ situatedness in their own “post-Christian” milieu, the discussion then focuses on Kierkegaard’s thought to facilitate the investigation into the religiousness of Atwood’s ethical type. Ultimately, a certain “crossroads” is testified between the secularized vision and the Christian understanding of being ethical and religious.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140626391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Charge of God: <i>Laudato Si’</i> read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins","authors":"Michael D Hurley","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si (2015), to show how far those writers anticipate its animus against technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, how far Laudato Si challenges the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins do not merely foreshadow and clarify the theological stakes of a papal document. By making even single words expressive of a whole worldview (achieving what William Empson called a ‘compacted doctrine’), their writings prove more imaginatively affective, as well as–this essay’s boldest gambit–more theologically adequate than the communicative formalities available to the theological treatise as a genre.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135461069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction, By Haris Qadeer, P.K. Yasser Arafath","authors":"Yuqun Fu","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad031","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction, By Haris Qadeer, P.K. Yasser Arafath Get access Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction. Edited by Haris Qadeer and P.K. Yasser Arafath. Abingdon, London; New York: Routledge, 2022. 274pp. Paperback, $52.95. ISBN: 9780367432508. Yuqun Fu Yuqun Fu Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, ChinaSouthwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China 715052313@qq.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6146-4875 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literature and Theology, frad031, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad031 Published: 19 October 2023","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog","authors":"Fatima Tofighi","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad028","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog Get access Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 207 pp. Hardback, $65.00 Fatima Tofighi Fatima Tofighi University of Bonn/University of Religions (Qom), Iran f.tofighi@urd.ac.ir https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8203-062X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literature and Theology, frad028, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad028 Published: 25 September 2023","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers","authors":"Elina Takala","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad029","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers Get access Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision. By Ryan S. Kemp and Jordan Rodgers. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 240pp. Hardback, £85. Elina Takala Elina Takala Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland elina.takala@abo.fi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0700-5288 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literature and Theology, frad029, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad029 Published: 19 September 2023","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135010726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Edited by Ronald R. Bernier, Rachel Hostetter Smith","authors":"Li He","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad030","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord, Edited by Ronald R. Bernier, Rachel Hostetter Smith Get access Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord. Edited by Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith. New York: Routledge, 2023. ix + 464pp. Paperback, $44.95. ISBN: 978-1-032-35417-0. Li He Li He Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China heli.nsmc@outlook.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-297X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literature and Theology, frad030, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad030 Published: 19 September 2023","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION: CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE ETHICS OF MYSTICISM","authors":"Sarah Denne","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many critics have called Clarice Lispector a mystic. Lispector, however, was not a religious figure, but rather a 20th-century Brazilian writer who was influenced by both her Jewish background and her Catholic Brazilian context. There are various forms of Jewish and Christian mysticism that reject transcendent union with God and, by referencing them, I elucidate the complexity of Lispector’s mystical fiction. By looking at challenges to mystical union in these traditions, I aim to show the ethical complexity of this concept and how that complexity is deepened through Lispector’s writing as she problematises blurred boundaries between self and Other.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135010723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}