{"title":"Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions","authors":"Fiona Darroch,Alison Jasper","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2014 25","pages":"379-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518465","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":"Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack","authors":"R. Illman","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84354371","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}
This article explores how an ethical practice of modesty, represented in Ayisha Malik’s novels Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (2015), and The Other Half of Happiness (2017), serves as an act of everyday resistance in the context of the issue of gender inequality in postcolonial South Asian Britain. It attempts to understand how religious modalities of agency, shown in the form of wearing hijab, operate against the dominant structures of power. However, drawing on Saba Mahmood’s theorisation of women’s agency in Politics of Piety (2004) as an embodied modality of action rather than simply a synonym for resistance to social norms, this article further argues that the female body in this fiction reshapes the understanding of religious experience through the conception of an embodied materiality of everyday resistance.
本文探讨了阿伊莎·马利克(Ayisha Malik)的小说《索菲亚·汗没有义务》(2015)和《幸福的另一半》(2017)中所体现的谦逊的伦理实践，如何在后殖民时期南亚英国性别不平等问题的背景下作为日常抵抗行为。它试图理解以戴头巾的形式表现出来的宗教形式是如何与占主导地位的权力结构对抗的。然而，借鉴萨巴·马哈茂德(Saba Mahmood)在《虔诚的政治》(Politics of Piety, 2004)中对女性能动性的理论，将其作为一种具体的行动形态，而不仅仅是对社会规范的抵抗的同义词，本文进一步论证了小说中的女性身体通过对日常抵抗的具体物质性的概念，重塑了对宗教经验的理解。
{"title":"Politics of Haya: Embodied Materiality of Piety as Everyday Resistance among British Muslim Women in Ayisha Malik's Fiction","authors":"Sumera Saleem","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab031","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how an ethical practice of modesty, represented in Ayisha Malik’s novels Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (2015), and The Other Half of Happiness (2017), serves as an act of everyday resistance in the context of the issue of gender inequality in postcolonial South Asian Britain. It attempts to understand how religious modalities of agency, shown in the form of wearing hijab, operate against the dominant structures of power. However, drawing on Saba Mahmood’s theorisation of women’s agency in Politics of Piety (2004) as an embodied modality of action rather than simply a synonym for resistance to social norms, this article further argues that the female body in this fiction reshapes the understanding of religious experience through the conception of an embodied materiality of everyday resistance.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2009 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518471","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}
Christina Rossetti’s Verses (1893) collects poetry published originally in her devotional prose works, and 57 of its 331 lyric poems are roundels. Structured helically, the roundels use refrains to accrue meaning through repetition with a difference. While Rossetti follows Swinburne’s 11-line form, she uses the songs of the Word—the liturgical and wisdom psalms in particular—as the inspiration for her words of song. By recognising the antiphonal dialogue of the roundels modelled on the Psalms, we see more clearly how Rossetti’s lyric poetry emphasises not introspection or a Romantic solipsism but rather an interchange with others that turns its participants toward God. The reverberations of the Psalms in her roundels make audible her commitment to a communal, lyric form that unites its dialogic participants in worship and in an inclusive eschatology; that overlays the temporal with the eternal; and that conveys the priestly act of proclaiming the Kingdom of God in the present.
{"title":"‘A Word Of Song’: Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti’s Roundels","authors":"Stephanie L Johnson","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Christina Rossetti’s Verses (1893) collects poetry published originally in her devotional prose works, and 57 of its 331 lyric poems are roundels. Structured helically, the roundels use refrains to accrue meaning through repetition with a difference. While Rossetti follows Swinburne’s 11-line form, she uses the songs of the Word—the liturgical and wisdom psalms in particular—as the inspiration for her words of song. By recognising the antiphonal dialogue of the roundels modelled on the Psalms, we see more clearly how Rossetti’s lyric poetry emphasises not introspection or a Romantic solipsism but rather an interchange with others that turns its participants toward God. The reverberations of the Psalms in her roundels make audible her commitment to a communal, lyric form that unites its dialogic participants in worship and in an inclusive eschatology; that overlays the temporal with the eternal; and that conveys the priestly act of proclaiming the Kingdom of God in the present.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75415821","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}
This article discusses some of the themes and implications of Lilith’s story. After setting the figure of Lilith in an historical context of Sumerian demonology and first millennium CE Babylonian midrash, we reflect on the current critical, feminist, postcolonial, and poetic up-take of this curious tale of Adam’s first wife. We consider how Lilith’s story appears in these readings, woven through migrated narratives of loss and trauma drawn from widely different communities, as a thread of ghostly witness to suffering and resilience within the everyday lives of women and others who have been bound by heteropatriarchal and colonial tropes and traditions, to the materiality of the body in birth, vulnerability to violence and death. Briefly illustrating Lilith as expressed in George MacDonald’s Lilith (1895), we draw on the work of Gayatri Spivak and Mayra Rivera to explore contemporary traces of Lilith’s presence in the writings ofAlicia Ostriker and, especially, Trinidadian poet, Shivanee Ramlochan. In reference to Ramlochan’s debut collection, Everyone Knows I am a Haunting (2017) we consider how Lilith is used to challenge these limiting tropes and traditions, giving value to complex identities and material existences that resist efforts to impose silence or contest memories that trouble and unsettle.
{"title":"The Ghosts of Lilith: haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan","authors":"Fiona Darroch, Alison Jasper","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab029","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses some of the themes and implications of Lilith’s story. After setting the figure of Lilith in an historical context of Sumerian demonology and first millennium CE Babylonian midrash, we reflect on the current critical, feminist, postcolonial, and poetic up-take of this curious tale of Adam’s first wife. We consider how Lilith’s story appears in these readings, woven through migrated narratives of loss and trauma drawn from widely different communities, as a thread of ghostly witness to suffering and resilience within the everyday lives of women and others who have been bound by heteropatriarchal and colonial tropes and traditions, to the materiality of the body in birth, vulnerability to violence and death. Briefly illustrating Lilith as expressed in George MacDonald’s Lilith (1895), we draw on the work of Gayatri Spivak and Mayra Rivera to explore contemporary traces of Lilith’s presence in the writings ofAlicia Ostriker and, especially, Trinidadian poet, Shivanee Ramlochan. In reference to Ramlochan’s debut collection, Everyone Knows I am a Haunting (2017) we consider how Lilith is used to challenge these limiting tropes and traditions, giving value to complex identities and material existences that resist efforts to impose silence or contest memories that trouble and unsettle.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2014 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518474","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}
This article approaches mental health of postcolonial bodies through the lens of colonial gender politics. Using postcolonial feminist writings on Hindu mythology as a starting point, I discuss how trauma has been imbibed into women’s bodies through concepts such as pativrata. This problematises our contemporary, uncritical understandings of the mind/body dichotomy posited by popular discourses on yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness techniques. Then, moving on to feminist writings on Indian indentured labour history and Bahujan communities, this article asserts that these traumas have continued throughout history, imbibing a mind/ body dichotomy textured by various forms of violence. I argue that these histories can neither be ignored nor completely overcome, and for a deeper engagement in mental health that is contextualised within these histories.
{"title":"Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health","authors":"Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab028","url":null,"abstract":"This article approaches mental health of postcolonial bodies through the lens of colonial gender politics. Using postcolonial feminist writings on Hindu mythology as a starting point, I discuss how trauma has been imbibed into women’s bodies through concepts such as pativrata. This problematises our contemporary, uncritical understandings of the mind/body dichotomy posited by popular discourses on yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness techniques. Then, moving on to feminist writings on Indian indentured labour history and Bahujan communities, this article asserts that these traumas have continued throughout history, imbibing a mind/ body dichotomy textured by various forms of violence. I argue that these histories can neither be ignored nor completely overcome, and for a deeper engagement in mental health that is contextualised within these histories.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2014 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518464","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}
Science fiction has a lengthy history of irreligion. In part, this relates to its titular association with science itself, which, as both methodology and ontological basis, veers away from revelatory forms of knowledge in order to formulate hypotheses of reality based upon experimental praxis. However, during science fiction’s long antipathy to faith, Buddhism has occupied a unique and sustained position within the genre. This article charts the origins of that interaction, in the pulp science fiction magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, in which depictions of Buddhism quickly evolve from ‘Yellow Peril’ paranoia towards something much more intriguing and accommodating, and in so doing, provide a genre foundation for the environmental concerns of much 21st-century science fiction.
{"title":"Buddhist Reception in Pulp Science Fiction","authors":"J. Clarke","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Science fiction has a lengthy history of irreligion. In part, this relates to its titular association with science itself, which, as both methodology and ontological basis, veers away from revelatory forms of knowledge in order to formulate hypotheses of reality based upon experimental praxis. However, during science fiction’s long antipathy to faith, Buddhism has occupied a unique and sustained position within the genre. This article charts the origins of that interaction, in the pulp science fiction magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, in which depictions of Buddhism quickly evolve from ‘Yellow Peril’ paranoia towards something much more intriguing and accommodating, and in so doing, provide a genre foundation for the environmental concerns of much 21st-century science fiction.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78676830","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":"Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe By Richard Holloway","authors":"Jonathan W Chappell","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frab011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73854592","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}
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