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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Douglas, Christopher

Titel

The Poisonwood Bible’s Multicultural Graft

Ist Teil von

• If God Meant to Interfere, 2016, p.60

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When Alice Walker wrote in 1996 that “It is my habit as a born-again pagan to lie on the earth in worship” (Same25), her language suggested the complicated blend of contestation and convergence marking the intersection of multiculturalism and the social and political resurgence of conservative Christianity in the United States since the 1970s. Explaining how she caught Lyme disease afterThe Color Purple(1982) was published, Walker observed, “I imagine I am like my pagan African and Native American ancestors, who were sustained by their conscious inseparability from Nature prior to being forced by missionaries to focus all