Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature : The Material Sacred - Dr Emily  McAvan

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The Material Sacred

By: Dr Emily McAvan

Hardcover | 14 November 2024

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What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this centuryâs most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred.

Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

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