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Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred

McAvan, Emily

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1350280372
ISBN13: 9781350280373
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 14 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century's most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred.

Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

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