Jeanette Winterson and Religion

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Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author’s work alongside the theological turn apparent in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Content Introduction 1 ‘I Love Both of Them’: Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 2 ‘Colours and Folly’: Retelling the Noah Story in Boating for Beginners 3 The Love Event in The Passion 4 Sexing the Cherry and the Monstrous Maternal 5 Written on the Body and the Negative Theology Tradition 6 Art & Lies: Literature in a Neoliberal Age 7 Gut Symmetries, New Physics and Kabbalah 8 The PowerBook and Virtual Culture 9 Lighthousekeeping and the Religious Vocation 10 Climate Change Apocalypse and The Stone Gods Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index