Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature
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Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature

The Aging Woman in the Image of God

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Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature

The Aging Woman in the Image of God

About this book

This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women's spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature treats aging and spirituality as major, connected themes. It demonstrates that such literature interacts meaningfully with feminist theology, social science research on aging and body image, attachment theory, and narrative identity theory. The book provides an interdisciplinary context for the relationship between aging and spirituality in order to confirm that US women's writing provides unique illustrations of the interconnections between aging and spirituality signaled by other fields. This book demonstrates that relationships between the human and divine remain a consistent and valuable feature of contemporary women's literature and that the divine–human relationship is under constant literary revision.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032454689
eBook ISBN
9781000909692
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Credits Page
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The Gift of Old Age and Flannery O’Connor’s Theophanies
  12. 2 Religious Beautification and Going Gray in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Stroke of Good Fortune”
  13. 3 Orphanhood and Spiritual Development: Exploring Intergenerational Loss and Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates’ Fiction
  14. 4 The Image of the Aging Jewish Woman as Vessel in Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s Late Poetry
  15. 5 Aging, Race, and Divine Embodiment in Lucille Clifton’s Poetry
  16. 6 Aging, Desire, and Marian Theology in Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine
  17. 7 A Feminist Pentecostal Perspective of Aging: Reflecting the Holy Spirit in Anne Babson’s Messiah and Polite Occasions
  18. 8 Coda: Observations on Attachment Theory, Gerotranscendence, and Late American Women’s Spiritual Literature
  19. Index