FEMINIST STORYTELLING AND THE PROBLEM OF WHITE FEMINISM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda DiMiele
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
White Womanhood ◽  
Critical Project

Abstract This article considers the problem of white feminism and how it is narrated. Part One argues that common strategies for solving this problem focus on reforming white feminist subjectivity; although these strategies have not achieved their desired effects, they remain popular because they narratively satisfy demands of feminist storytelling. They thus become traps. Part Two turns to literary studies for a methodological reorientation for Christian theology: away from ethics as a redemptive project pursued at the site of white feminist subjectivity, and toward a critical project that understands white womanhood as a textual figure in need of ongoing interpretation.

scholarly journals Mot ett bredare arketextualitetsbegrepp: den augustinsk-lutherska diskurstypen i Birgitta Trotzigs Dykungens dotter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-36
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Bak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Century Literature

This article has three aims, all of them related to the theory and practice of intertextuality. Firstly, the article makes an attempt to reconstruct the Augustinian-Lutheran type of discourse. A number of modern theologians and historians of philosophy have observed that the main currents within Christian theology have their basis in a specific discourse organization of textual utterances. With reference to these observations, the article maps out some dominant features of Augustine’s and Luther’s discoursive practices. The type of discourse thus reconstructed contains grammatical, logical-argumentative, narrative and rhetoric-figurative characteristics, and – as a matter of fact – it manifests a high degree of applicability in the field of literary studies. Secondly, the article applies the reconstructed type of discourse to analyze a masterpiece of Swedish twentieth-century literature, the novel Dykungens dotter (The Marsh King’s Daughter, 1985) by Birgitta Trotzig (1929–2013). In several interviews, Trotzig makes evidently contradictory remarks on Augustine and Luther. She dissociates herself from their anthropology at the same time as she hints that their view of human conditions has made a deep impression on her. The article’s application intends to throw light on this precarious hermeneutic situation. The intense presence of the Augustinian-Lutheran type of discourse in the novel made apparent through the application indicates that an interpretation of Trotzig’s writings by means of Augustinian-Lutheran intertexts is hermeneutically motivated in spite of her own negative declarations. Thirdly, the article makes use of the reconstructed type of discourse in order to examin Gérard Genette’s notion of architextuality. There is a theoretical incongruence in his notion. On an explicit definitory level, architextuality includes all types of discourse and modes of enunciation. On a conteptual level, however, the notion of architextuality is constructed on the pattern of literary genres. The article’s application demonstrates that Genette’s notion requires some corrections to live up to its definitory commitments. The Augustinian-Lutheran architext comes into conflict with some of Genette’s linguisticly construed structuralistic categories and demands a more discoursive and hermeneutic way of thinking.

Reflections on the Maturity of Religion and Theology in Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jasper
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
European Thought ◽  
Contemporary Development

The simple purpose of this article is to ask the question of whether the contemporary development of Sino-Christian theology in China, often in the context of academic literary studies in universities, is an exercise in theological maturity, or whether it remains tied to the apron strings of European thought and western Christianity. It opens up, of course, larger questions of cultural development and intercultural exchanges in our increasingly global culture. More particularly it will argue for the central importance of literary studies in this development of theology in China, at a time when there is renewed attention to the ancient traditions and texts of Chinese literary culture and religion.

Introduction to Theory and Theology in Chinese Literary Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-35
Author(s):  
Sharon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Secular Theory ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Chinese Intellectuals

Based in the context of Marxist China, Chinese intellectuals with no church background or affiliation have yet shown a keen interest in reading and applying the insights of western Christian theology. In Chinese literary studies, such scholars, who are secular in orientation, integrate both theory and theology in their work. This Sino-theological scholarship is virtually unknown in literary studies in the USA. Yet as demonstrated in the work of Yang Huilin and Liu Xiaofeng, among others, it contributes to a globalized understanding of literary studies. It also challenges current understandings of secularism, adding a new dimension to post-secular theory.

An Introduction to Christian Theology

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Plantinga ◽  
Thomas R. Thompson ◽  
Matthew D. Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology

The Old Man in Purgatory: The Indian Part in Yeats's Vision of Salvation

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Yeeyon Im
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Selfless Action

This essay examines Yeats's Purgatory via A Vision, in an attempt to understand his view of salvation in particular relation to Indian philosophy. Read from a Christian perspective, Purgatory may be a work far from purgation, as T. S. Eliot once complained. I wish to show in this essay that Purgatory indeed places emphasis on purgation by a negative example, if in a different way from the Catholic one. Yeats denies the linear eschatology of Christian theology as well as its doctrine of salvation in eternal heaven. In A Vision, Yeats explains his view of the afterlife of the soul, which involves purgation through ‘the Dreaming Back’. The special treatment of the Old Man renders Purgatory a meta-purgatorial play that mirrors the Dreaming Back of his mother's spirit in the Old Man's, intensifying the theme of purgation. Purgatory effectively dramatizes the inability to forgive and cast out remorse: the impossibility of nishikam karma, or selfless action, to borrow Sanskrit terms, which is essential for Yeatsian salvation. Finally, I would also emphasize Yeats's deviation from the Hindu wisdom, which makes Yeats's vision uniquely his own.

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