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9780878057238

Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780878057238

  • ISBN10:

    0878057234

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

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Summary

How postcolonial literature reflects the irony that the same biblical call both enslaved the Third World and freed it

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Conversations on Postcolonial Literaturep. 3
Experience, Existence, and Mystery: Biblical Ideas of Justice in Postcolonial Fictionp. 34
The Kingdom of God on Earth: Ernesto Cardenal's Salmosp. 48
Biblical Justice and the Military Hero in Two Novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquezp. 60
Mask and Mirror: Isabel Allende's Mechanism for Justice in The House of the Spiritsp. 74
Deciphering the Wounds: The Politics of Torture and Julio Cortazar's Literature of Embodimentp. 91
Charles Eastman, Nicholas Black Elk, and the Construction of Religious Identityp. 111
We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justicep. 125
The Dialogical Imagination of Chinua Achebep. 136
"The Sound of the Horn of Justice" in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Narrativep. 152
Comrade Jesus: Postcolonial Literature and the Story of Christp. 169
The Nightmare of History Revisited: Andre Brink's An Instant in the Windp. 183
The Intifada of the Intellectuals: An Ecumenical Perspective on the Walzer-Said Exchangep. 198
Notesp. 219
Works Citedp. 231
Contributorsp. 249
Indexp. 251
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