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Faith, Eschatology, and Spiritual Imagination in Asian American Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Faith, Eschatology, and Spiritual Imagination in Asian American Literature./
Author:	Lee, Sara.
Description:	1 online resource (307 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29211252click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798834064800

Faith, Eschatology, and Spiritual Imagination in Asian American Literature.
Lee, Sara.

Faith, Eschatology, and Spiritual Imagination in Asian American Literature. - 1 online resource (307 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Despite various and multiple works of Asian American literature engaging with religion, faith, spirituality, and matters of faith, there is a notable absence of literary analysis that considers Asian American literature through the lens of faith. This dissertation examines representations of faith, eschatology, and spiritual imagination as they intersect with race, gender, and class in Asian American literature, and how authors engage with religious history, theology, faith practices, and dominant belief systems to shape aesthetic decisions. In addition to the authors' literary approaches and religious backgrounds, Asian American theology, particularly eschatology, affect theory, and postsecularism are used to analyze novels, short stories, poetry and prose written by Min Jin Lee, Li-Young Lee, R. O. Kwon, and Ted Chiang. This dissertation considers how authors explicitly and implicitly engage with aspects of and issues with Christianity in particular to expand upon the ways we can critically discuss these authors and their works by considering, alongside categories of race, gender, and class, how matters of faith can further deepen our understanding of identity and belonging. This dissertation focuses on the impact of Christianity and the role of Christian missions to East Asia/Asian America, the role of the (ethnic) church, and Christian nationalisms. These authors reveal how Christianity remains a privileged religion in the U.S. in the ways identity and belonging can be regulated and negotiated through the church and state. They demonstrate how Christianity is often utilized to establish, prove, and perform national identity and belonging in terms of the Protestant work ethic. They also show how faith can be used to offer alternatives that challenge the "Protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism" embedded in the pursuit of the American Dream. These authors engage with eschatology and eschatological thought to reimagine a postsecular form of simultaneous free will and predestination that works alongside and in distinction to established religion. In contrast to either/or binary responses, this study emphasizes non-binary both/and alternatives and forms of intentional liminality that counter divisive forms of how identity and belonging are imagined.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798834064800Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

AffectIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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