![]() | Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Religion and literature -- United St; Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's Vineland , Toni Morrison's Paradise , and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine . What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. Partial Faiths is the first study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms, take the measure of its structures and strategies, and evaluate its contribution to public discourse on religion's place in postmodern life. JOHN A. MCCLURE is a professor of English and associate director of the graduate program in the English department at Rutgers University. He is the author of Late Imperial Romance and Kipling and Conrad: The Colonial Fiction . |
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