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Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture
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Book Description
Raymond-Jean Frontain, in Reclaiming the Sacred, has brought together an impressive array of scholars to explore two prevalent trends among gay and lesbian literature and art. See how a transgressive approach has been employed among gay and lesbian writers to challenge the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression. Also learn how an appropriative technique has been used to explore the ways in which the Bible's tropes and figures constitute the basis of a gay and lesbian spirituality.Through the centuries, a multitude of writers have resisted homophobic interpretations of the Bible, and have found, instead, that many biblical texts invite the possibility of homoerotic readings. Readers of Reclaiming the Sacred learn how these texts have been reappropriated by gay writers and artists to offer a means of granting dignity and sanctity to gay and lesbian existence.
Thought-provoking and well-articulated, the book's powerful chapters explore the ways in which gays have undermined the hegemonic discourse of straight, patriarchal, Judeo-Christian society and moved toward the creation of a gay and lesbian spirituality. Academics and lay readers alike will be impressed with the book's discussions of:
--the Pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon who seized the authority of the Bible to explore and legitimize his homoerotic desires
--sodomite rhetoric in a seventeenth-century Italian text
--the story of Sodom and the creation of an anal nihilism
--Radclyffe Hall's lesbian messiah in her 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness
--homosexual temptation in John Milton's Paradise(in ital) Regained(in ital)
--E. M. Forster's use of Vedic scripture to counteract Biblical authority and sanctify same-sex love
--how Oscar Wilde usurped the language of both The Song of Songs and The Book of Revelation to ape the paradox of biblical sensuality and construct an alternative identity
Reclaiming the Sacred is a promising step in counteracting the manipulative and oppressive uses to which modern writers and thinkers put the Bible and the "morality" it is supposed to inscribe. Its scholarly, thorough analyses of important literary works will be appreciated by professors of literature, students of literature, writers, and all those interested in gay and lesbian issues. An important tool for understanding the role of the Bible in gay and lesbian culture, this remarkable volume may even inspire you to undertake study and/or writing of your own.
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