Christian White Supremacy in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead Novels
Readers of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels will not learn from them that some historical traditions of American Christianity were engines of Christian white supremacy justifying slavery and segregation—despite the fact that the novels are about Christianity, slavery, and segregation. This ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-207 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
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Slavery
B cultural memory B Segregation B Christian Right B Marilynne Robinson |
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| Summary: | Readers of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels will not learn from them that some historical traditions of American Christianity were engines of Christian white supremacy justifying slavery and segregation—despite the fact that the novels are about Christianity, slavery, and segregation. This marked absence has become increasingly clear in the years since she first published Gilead in 2004, especially with her most recent addition of Jack in 2020. The absence of Christian white supremacy in Robinson's novels shapes a cultural memory of Christian innocence for her and for her readers—a striking evasion that aligns with the Christian Right's rewriting of its origin story to be not a reaction against Civil Rights but against abortion. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0017 |