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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2017
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Religion & literature
Année: 2017, Volume: 49, Numéro: 3, Pages: 23-47 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BL Bouddhisme CD Christianisme et culture TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Buddhists
B Buddhism B SALINGER, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010 B Christianity B KIPLING, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
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| Résumé: | 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 a different aspect of how Buddhism coordinates the relation between political and spiritual liberation in both progressive and regressive ways. In so doing, I show the extent to which literary criticism's lack of investment in new trends in critical Buddhist studies has obscured our understanding of canonical texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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