Höttges, Bärbel
Faith Matters

Religion, Ethnicity, and Survival in Louise Erdrich's and Toni Morrison's Fiction.

Drawing on the historical, literary, and theoretical background of their novels, the study exposes the central role of religion in the articulation of an independent ethnic identity for both writers. This interdisciplinary approach moves beyond the realm of fiction to acknowledge a distinctively ethnic understanding of religion, which revises the established view of an either radically secularized or fundamentally religious U.S.-American society. This volume thus offers a reinterpretation of the function of religion both in American ethnic culture and in the larger U.S.-American context. XII,295 Seiten mit 7 Abb., gebunden (American Studies. A Monograph Series; Vol. 149/Universitätsverlag Winter 2007)