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The gift of story : narrating hope in a postmodern world
Title
The gift of story : narrating hope in a postmodern world / edited by Emily Griesinger, Mark Eaton.
ISBN
1932792473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xii, 391 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 07, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index.
Contents
Introduction: narrating hope in a postmodern world / Emily Griesinger
The postmodern condition
Inventing hope : the question of belief in Don Delillo's novels / Mark Eaton
Voices from within : Gloria Anzaldúa, bell hooks, and Roberta Bondi / Anne-Marie Bowery
Time for hope : The sixth sense, American beauty, Memento, and Twelve monkeys / D. Brent Laytham
Beyond futility : American beauty and the Book of Ecclesiastes / Robert K. Johnston
The valley of despair
Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's Souls raised from the dead / Martha Greene Eads
Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's Homecoming man / Elaine Lux
Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling
Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's The town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert
Resisting the night
A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. Bush, Jr.
The prophetic burden : James Baldwin as a latter-day Jeremiah / Kelvin Beliele
Reconciliation and hope : confessional narratives in South Africa / Susan VanZanten Gallagher
Adversity and grace
Hope in hard times : moments of epiphany in illness narratives / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Geographies of hope : Kathleen Norris and David Lynch / Kevin L. Cole
Attunement and healing : The fisher king / Michael B. Herzog
The gift of grace : Isak Dinesen's Babette's feast / Maire Mullins
Hope and the imagination
The redress of imagination : Bernard MacLaverty's Grace notes / Barry Sloan
The search for "deeper magic" : J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis / Emily Griesinger
J.R.R. Tolkien : postmodern visionary of hope / Ralph C. Wood.
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