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• W4386887163 abstract "Reviewed by: Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature by Norman W. Jones, and: The Bible in the American Short Story by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins Luke Ferretter Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature. By Norman W. Jones. New York: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-50212-3. Pp. 169. $160.00. The Bible in the American Short Story. By Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4742-3716-1. Pp. xvii + 234. $115.00. There has never been a time in the history of the discipline of English in which critics have not been interested in the relationships between the Bible and literature. These two books make clear that this remains very much the case in the study of contemporary American literature. Both books survey a wide range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century fiction, and show that the Bible is one of the most significant texts with which American writers, from every kind of cultural background, continue to wrestle right up to the present day. Norman W. Jones' Provincializing the Bible takes its title from Dipresh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe (2000), which both criticizes the violent legacy of Enlightenment thought and does so in terms derived from precisely such thought. In Jones' view, certain American novelists take up an analogous position with respect to the Bible, both criticizing it from the perspective of the justice due to marginalized communities, and at the same time using it in articulating their call for precisely such justice. Given that . . . these novels explicitly critique the Bible in terms of the supporting role it has played in the marginalization of a wide variety of oppressed peoples, all . . . also cast it in surprisingly vital and integral roles (92). He defines such novels as postsecular, as literary works which [represent] the subversion of oversimplified secularization narratives as a necessary component of the multifaceted struggle to valorize the disavowed (6). Furthermore, since the first American novelist to take up this double-movement (102) with respect to the Bible, in Jones' view, is Faulkner, the latter must be considered as a major precursor, indeed a major proponent, of postsecular fiction. After a learned introduction on the postsecular and the Bible, Jones deals first with Faulkner, focusing especially on Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He argues that the Bible haunts Faulkner's fiction in numerous ways, both formally and thematically (23). The complex temporality of the novels resonates with traditional Christian notions of multiple overlapping biblical temporalities (27). There are echoes of the syntax, keywords, parallelism, and rhythms of the King James Bible, and multiple characters . . . face a tension between . . . a 'law ethic' and a 'love ethic' (43). Along with the stark differences in Faulkner's style to that of the KJV, these biblical resonances mean that the Bible is uncannily present and absent in Faulkner's novels (54). The rest of the book traces similar ambiguities and ambivalence with respect to the Bible in a series of post-World-War-II novels, Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), Leslie Marmion Silko's Ceremony (1977), Ana Castillo's So Far from God (1993), and Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2003). In each case Jones argues that, like Faulkner, the authors work with a provincialized, [End Page 461] modern sense of the Bible, the prophetic authority of which is vague and questionable but not quite dismissible (73). This book is a valuable contribution to the study of postsecular writing. It identifies a distinctive pattern of responses to the Bible in post-World-War-II American fiction, especially among minority authors, as well as in Faulkner. In the light of Gianni Vattimo's concept of weak thought, or of John Caputo's concept of weak theology, we might speak of the weak Bible of postsecular American fiction. The Bible has not lost its critical power with respect to truth and justice for American writers, even while they are keenly aware and critical of its use in the history of their oppression. Jones is at his best when he emphasizes that the complexity of the use of the Bible in postsecular fiction derives from the complexity of the..." @default.
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• W4386887163 title "Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature by Norman W. Jones, and: The Bible in the American Short Story by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins (review)" @default.
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