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Principalities and powers: Religion and resistance in contemporary ethnic women's literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Principalities and powers: Religion and resistance in contemporary ethnic women's literature./
Author:	Powers, Peter Kerry.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1991,
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A, page: 1519.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-05A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9227056

Principalities and powers: Religion and resistance in contemporary ethnic women's literature.
Powers, Peter Kerry.

Principalities and powers: Religion and resistance in contemporary ethnic women's literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991 - 245 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A, page: 1519.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 1991.

The dissertation examines the manner in which Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston use ethnic religious traditions to promote social change and to reimagine the novel itself as a religious and political act. Through their different religious traditions, these writers challenge an American cultural scene that has been largely despiritualized. This challenge strikes indirectly at contemporary critical practice. Much contemporary criticism ignores the religious elements of American literature, or treats them in an apolitical and transcendent manner. While a number of useful essays emphasize the liberating effects of Celie's relationship with Shug Avery, no essays fully analyze Walker's spirituality in terms of its relationship to African-American religious and political history. Conversely, while many critics write about the ceremonial character of Silko's work, it is seldom tied to the political and social ills which the book attempts to overcome.Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Principalities and powers: Religion and resistance in contemporary ethnic women's literature.
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520 $a The dissertation seeks to fill this critical gap by understanding the manner in which religious practices in these novels are always political and therefore always a potential resource for social change. Silko writes her novel Ceremony as a Navajo healing ritual. Through the reader's identification with her protagonist, Silko integrates her readers into an imaginative world in which human warfare and ecological destruction might be overcome. In Walker's The Color Purple, Celie's struggle for self-realization is cast as a form of spiritual warfare. The Spirit of creation which is particularly associated with African-American women combats the abstract monotheism which undergirds patriarchy and racism. Finally, Kingston's The Woman Warrior draws upon Chinese traditions of ancestor worship in order to redraw American images of the subject. Rather than imagining herself as the independent American or as the Chinese woman subordinated to the past, Kingston weaves these two images together in order to show that her uniqueness as a person and as a storyteller depends upon her relationship to a host of others in the past and the present. By respiritualizing contemporary culture, these writers anticipate and work for fully just and humane future.
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