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.
{"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":"38 1","pages":""},"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}
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.
奇戈齐-奥比奥马（Chigozie Obioma）的小说《少数民族交响乐团》（An Orchestra of Minorities）融入了伊格博人的奥迪纳尼传统，被誉为另类宇宙观的文学实践。然而，该书也与基督教神学进行了认真的探讨。这篇文章认为，小说对错误行为、悔改和赦免的描述，对基督教宽恕的动力进行了细致的分析，并通过伊格博宇宙观的视角使之更加尖锐。小说表现了荣誉-羞耻准则与宽恕要求之间的紧张关系，同时批判了报应逻辑，并对浪漫和治疗性的宽恕模式提出了质疑。通过探讨解决犯罪的复杂性，并围绕政治不公正提出令人费解的问题，《少数民族交响乐团》推动了一种精致的道德语法，在这种语法中，宽恕并非不可能，而是经常性的未完成。
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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.
{"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":"25 1","pages":""},"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}
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.
{"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":"59 1","pages":"0"},"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":"16 1","pages":"0"},"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}
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
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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
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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
玛丽莲·罗宾逊的世俗福音。《她的基督教愿景的哲学叙述》，作者:瑞安·s·肯普，乔丹·罗杰斯她的基督教视野的哲学叙述。作者:Ryan S. Kemp和Jordan Rodgers。伦敦:布鲁姆斯伯里学术出版社，2023。240页。精装,£85。Elina Takala Elina Takala Åbo芬兰图尔库学术大学elina.takala@abo.fi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0700-5288搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者文学和神学，frad029, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad029出版日期:2023年9月19日
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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
期刊文章宗教与当代艺术:一个奇怪的协议，编辑罗纳德·r·伯尼尔，雷切尔·霍斯泰特·史密斯获得宗教与当代艺术:一个奇怪的协议。Ronald R. Bernier和Rachel Hostetter Smith编辑。纽约:劳特利奇出版社，2023。Ix + 464pp。平装,44.95美元。ISBN: 978-1-032-35417-0。李赫李赫西南交通大学，中国成都heli.nsmc@outlook.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-297X搜索作者其他著作:牛津学术谷歌学者文学与神学，frad030, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad030出版日期:2023年9月19日
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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.
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