Buddhism Between Worlds: Contested Liberations in Kipling, Salinger, and Head

This essay considers the place of Buddhism in three diverse novels by Rudyard Kipling, J.D. Salinger, and Bessie Head. By reading these novels together, I hope to break some of the monolithic assumptions about Buddhism that still pervade in literary studies. I show that each of these novels takes up...

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Main Author: Alpert, Avram (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. 2017
In: Religion & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 23-47
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
CD Christianity and Culture
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Buddhists
B Buddhism
B SALINGER, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010
B Christianity
B KIPLING, Rudyard, 1865-1936
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