Jeanette Winterson and Religion

By - McAvan, Emily

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020

ISBN 10 - 1350096903

ISBN 13 - 9781350096905

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Criticism, interpretation, etc

Shelf No - 8

Call Number - 823.914 MCA

Physical Description - 212 pages ; 22 cm.

Notes - Includes index

Book Information

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred.

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