Rewriting Race, Gender and Religion in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Paradise

Religions

卷:10

Heather Hathaway¹ 

[1] Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA;

关键词: religion;    Gnosticism;    womanist theology;    African American women;    spirituality;    Toni Morrison;    Song of Solomon;    Paradise;    The Source of Self-Regard;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rel10060345

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article explores author Toni Morrison’s creation of female spiritual leaders in her 1977 novel, Song of Solomon, and her 1998 novel, Paradise. I argue that she deliberately distorts Biblical imagery and narrative to rewrite women into the roles of spiritual agents rather than subjects, using irony and inversion, in Song of Solomon. She builds on this in Paradise by exploring the limitations of patriarchal orthodox Christian systems of social order and control by casting them in light of alternative spiritual beliefs, most notably Gnosticism.

【 授权许可】

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