祈祷已经爆发：近代启示小说中的流行病、资本主义和宗教极端主义

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STUDIES IN THE NOVEL Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/sdn.2022.0018

Emrah Atasoy, Thomas Horan

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摘要

摘要：最近的启示录小说表明，流行病可以催化宗教狂热，突出了资本主义和原教旨主义之间令人不安的相似之处。在玛格丽特·阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood）的《Oryx and Crake》（2003）中，一位心怀不满的企业科学家发展了一种流行病，这种流行病引发了宗教复兴，并将责任归咎于一个被歪曲的宗教环保主义派别。在Emily St.John Mandel的《十一号车站》（2014）中，一场导致全球人口大量死亡的流感被解释为上帝的净化行为。在马的《分手》（2018）中，在一种源自中国的致命疾病之后，一位总部位于纽约市的前企业产品协调员陷入了一位前IT专家和投资者领导的宗教邪教的魔掌。我们的分析考察了宗教是如何被纳入企业资本主义的，以及对冠状病毒的不科学反应最终可能产生的广泛吸引力，特别是在存在更多与病毒相关的经济问题的情况下。

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Prayer Had Broken Out: Pandemics, Capitalism, and Religious Extremism in Recent Apocalyptic Fiction

Abstract:Recent apocalyptic fiction suggests that epidemics can catalyze religious fanaticism, highlighting disturbing parallels between capitalism and fundamentalism. In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), a disaffected corporate scientist develops a pandemic that seeds a religious revival and causes blame to fall on a misrepresented sect of religious environmentalists. In Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014), a flu that decimates the global population is interpreted as a purifying act of God. In Ling Ma’s Severance (2018), following a deadly disease that originates in China, a former corporate product coordinator based in New York City who mass-markets Bibles falls into the clutches of a religious cult led by an ex-IT specialist and investor. Our analysis examines how religion has been subsumed within corporate capitalism as well as the broad appeal unscientific reactions to the coronavirus could ultimately have, particularly as there are more virus-related economic problems.

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期刊介绍： From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.