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The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction
Northwestern University Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-0-8101-3229-0 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3227-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3228-3 Library of Congress Classification PS374.I495P43 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.5409355
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Forsaken Son engages the provocative coincidence of the vocabularies of infanticide and Christianity, specifically atonement theology, in six modern American novels: Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, the first two installments of John Updike’s Rabbit tetralogy, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love, and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark. Christian atonement theology explains why God lets His son be crucified. Yet in recent years, as an increasing number of scholars have come to reject that explanation, the cross reverts from saving grace to trauma—or even crime. More bluntly, without atonement, the cross may be a filicide, in which God forces his son to die for no apparent reason. Pederson argues that the novels about child murder mentioned above likewise give voice to modern skepticism about traditional atonement theology. See other books on: American fiction | Atonement | Infanticide | Infanticide in literature | Modern American Fiction See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
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The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction
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Northwestern University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-8101-3229-0
Paper: 978-0-8101-3227-6
Cloth: 978-0-8101-3228-3
eISBN: 978-0-8101-3229-0
Paper: 978-0-8101-3227-6
Cloth: 978-0-8101-3228-3
The Forsaken Son engages the provocative coincidence of the vocabularies of infanticide and Christianity, specifically atonement theology, in six modern American novels: Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, the first two installments of John Updike’s Rabbit tetralogy, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love, and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.
Christian atonement theology explains why God lets His son be crucified. Yet in recent years, as an increasing number of scholars have come to reject that explanation, the cross reverts from saving grace to trauma—or even crime. More bluntly, without atonement, the cross may be a filicide, in which God forces his son to die for no apparent reason. Pederson argues that the novels about child murder mentioned above likewise give voice to modern skepticism about traditional atonement theology.
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