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...
| Published in: | Religion & literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Religion & literature
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism CD Christianity and Culture TK Recent history |
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B Buddhism B SALINGER, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010 B Christianity B KIPLING, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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