| Description |
viii, 258 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Experience, existence, and mystery : biblical ideas of justice in postcolonial fiction / Ed Block, Jr. -- Kingdom of God on earth : Ernesto Cardenal's Salmos / Terry DeHay -- Biblical justice and the military hero in two novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Lourdes Elena Morales-Gudmundsson -- Mask and mirror : Isabel Allende's mechanism for justice in The house of the spirits / Claudia Marie Kovach -- Deciphering the wounds : the politics of torture and Julio Cortazar's literature of embodiment / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Charles Eastman, Nicholas Black Elk, and the construction of religious identity / Bradley J Monsma -- We wretched of the earth : the search for a language of justice / John C. Hawley -- Dialogical imagination of Chinua Achebe / Susan VanZanten Gallagher -- Sound of the horn of justice in Ng~ug~iwa Thiong'o's narrative / Oliver Lovesey -- Comrade Jesus : postcolonial literature and the story of Christ / Norman R. Cary -- Nightmare of history revisited : Andre Brink's An instant in the wind / Alan Jacobs -- Intifada of the intellectuals : an ecumenical perspective on the Walzer-Said exchange / Mark Walhout. |
| Subject |
Christianity and literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Justice in literature.
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| Added Author |
Gallagher, Susan V.
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| ISBN |
0878057234 |
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