Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice

by Gallagher, Susan Vanzanten

• ISBN13: 9780878057238
• ISBN10: 0878057234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

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 Literature	p. 3
Experience, Existence, and Mystery: Biblical Ideas of Justice in Postcolonial Fiction	p. 34
The Kingdom of God on Earth: Ernesto Cardenal's Salmos	p. 48
Biblical Justice and the Military Hero in Two Novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez	p. 60
Mask and Mirror: Isabel Allende's Mechanism for Justice in The House of the Spirits	p. 74
Deciphering the Wounds: The Politics of Torture and Julio Cortazar's Literature of Embodiment	p. 91
Charles Eastman, Nicholas Black Elk, and the Construction of Religious Identity	p. 111
We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice	p. 125
The Dialogical Imagination of Chinua Achebe	p. 136
"The Sound of the Horn of Justice" in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Narrative	p. 152
Comrade Jesus: Postcolonial Literature and the Story of Christ	p. 169
The Nightmare of History Revisited: Andre Brink's An Instant in the Wind	p. 183
The Intifada of the Intellectuals: An Ecumenical Perspective on the Walzer-Said Exchange	p. 198
Notes	p. 219
Works Cited	p. 231
Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 251
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