{"product_id":"jeanette-winterson-and-religion-9781350235953","title":"Jeanette Winterson and Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of her first novel, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not the Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeanette Winterson and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe PowerBook\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Gods\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eJeanette Winterson and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcAvan’s text does not disappoint in the insights it offers. As well as creating a thorough and informative study of Winterson’s major works, McAvan also succeeds in her overall aim – to establish that, with a reappearance of the divine in the secular cultural space of postmodernism, Winterson creates an art of major import through a “return of the sacred in the post-secular world” (170). * Contemporary Women's Writing *\u003cbr\u003eEmily McAvan incisively interrogates a theme conspicuous by its absence in most extant criticism of Winterson’s writing: the fierce interplay of religion with sexuality, gender and power. Here queerness and holiness are interwoven as visionary, and Winterson herself is claimed as prophetic. In this expansive book, McAvan highlights Winterson’s generative deconstruction of binaries such as secular and sacred, sameness and otherness, belief and unbelief, and identifies her as a perceptive religious thinker. * Susannah Cornwall, Senior Lecturer in Constructive Theologies, University of Exeter *\u003cbr\u003eAt long last a powerful study of a queer and feminist writer that brings the body and the spirit together. In this finely written book Em McAvan turns to the postmodern sacred to provide a rigorous  theoretical framework for a reading of Jeanette Winterson's  novels of lesbian and bisexual love. * Vijay Mishra, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.     Introduction 2.     ‘I Love Both of Them’: Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges are not the Only Fruit  3.     ‘Colours and Folly’: Retelling the Noah Story in \u003ci\u003eBoating For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e 4.     The Love Event in \u003ci\u003eThe Passion\u003c\/i\u003e 5.     \u003ci\u003eSexing the Cherry\u003c\/i\u003e and the Monstrous Maternal 6.     \u003ci\u003eWritten on the Body\u003c\/i\u003e and the Negative Theology Tradition 7.     \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Lies\u003c\/i\u003e: Literature in a Neoliberal Age \u003ci\u003e8.     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGut Symmetries, \u003c\/i\u003eNew Physics and Kabbalah 9.     \u003ci\u003eThe PowerBook\u003c\/i\u003e and Virtual Culture 10.\u003ci\u003eLighthousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e and the Religious Vocation 11.\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Gods’\u003c\/i\u003e Climate Change Apocalypse 12. Conclusion","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084837089623,"sku":"9781350235953","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350235953.jpg?v=1762207308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jeanette-winterson-and-religion-9781350235953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}