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The new believers
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- Book Synopsis
- The New Believers identifies a group of today's most important novelists, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Dìaz, and George Saunders, who have challenged the trend of depressing and defeatist novelistic endings by turning to spiritual beliefs, powers, and presences. Through spiritual belief, these writers use the novel to imagine more hopeful and caring ways of being in the world, ones that can challenge Christian Nationalism and neoliberal capitalism and empower leftist and liberal causes, such as women's rights, migrant rights, animal rights, and care for the environment. Through a survey of the current state of novel studies, close readings of key works by each writer, and new archival research on Margaret Atwood and J. M. Coetzee, The New Believers shows how these writers transform novelistic realism through spiritual realism and reshape the current debate about religion, secularization, and literature.
- About The Author
- Jack Dudley is Delaplaine Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of English at Mount Saint Mary's University. His articles have appeared in a range of journals. He was one of twelve invited consultants for the Christian Poetics Initiative (Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts, Yale University).
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- ISBN
- 9781009772518
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, (30 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 244
- Weight
- 405 grams
- Language
- English
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