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Seodial Frank H. Deena is Professor of Multicultural and Postcolonial Literature and Criticism at East Carolina University where he coordinates the Graduate Multicultural Literature Program. He teaches multicultural, world, postcolonial, African American, and Caribbean literature, as well as the Bible as literature. He received his Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from the University of Guyana. His previous works include, Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works By Minority Writers, and Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies, is forthcoming in 2007. Karoline Szatek is a Shakespeare and early modern scholar, visiting professor, and contributing editor to The Shakespeare Newsletter. Szatek, who received her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, teaches Shakespeare and other early modern literature at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her book, The Discourse of Space in Early Modern Pastoral Drama, is forthcoming.

• Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 PrefacePart 3 Section I: The United States and CanadaChapter 4 The Bible as Babel: the Suspicions of Dorothy L. SayersChapter 5 Yvette Nolan's Job's Wife: The Center's ReactionChapter 6 Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: The Biblical PerspectiveChapter 7 Djuna Barnes's Revision of Biblical Genealogies in her novel RyderPart 8 Section 2: EuropeChapter 9 The Measure of Un-marked Vows in Two Early Modern English DramasChapter 10 The Country House Poem and the Christian EthosChapter 11 Biblical Allusion Through an Ironic Filter in Swift's Gulliver's TravelsChapter 12 Members of God's Body: Charles Williams's Theory of Co-inherenceChapter 13 Intimations of Religious Mysticism in Virginia Woolf's To the LighthousePart 14 Section 3: Asia and the Middle EastChapter 15 Kneading the Texts Through the Practice of MisquotationChapter 16 Biblical Walls and Textual Enclosures as Borders in Kipling's Short NarrativeChapter 17 Songs of Ascents and Descents: Israeli Modernist Poets and the Hebrew BibleChapter 18 Justice and the Old/New Jewish Nation in Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert TrilogyChapter 19 New History, New Language - Dimensions of Biblical Intertextuality in Rachel's PoetryPart 20 Section 4: AfricaChapter 21 Postcoloniality, Feminism and theBible in Ngugi's A Grain of WheatChapter 22 Missionary Movements, Imperialism & ChristianityPart 23 Section 5: African AmericanChapter 24 The Theology and Poetics of Sin and Punishment in Go Tell it on the MountainChapter 25 Growing Up Black and Gay in the Heartof the Bible Belt: Randall Kenan's Perspective on Fundamentalist Religion in A Visitation of SpiritsChapter 26 She Had No Self Left: The Sacrificial Love of Miriam in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Hagar in Toni Morrison's Song of SolomonChapter 27 Demonizing the Devil: the Postlapserian World of Zora Neal Hurston's SweatPart 28 Section 6: The Caribbean and Latin AmericaChapter 29 Colonialism and Capitalism: 'The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil' in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso SeaChapter 30 'What else God make women for?' Subverting the Politics and Spirituality of the Patriarchs in The Hills of HebronChapter 31 Go Bring Down Goliath: Biblical Reappropriation and Counter-Discoursein Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His BrothersChapter 32 Judaizing the Secret Practices: Religion and Crypto-Jews in Mexico Through Kathleen Achalá's Spirits of the OrdinaryPart 33 About the ContributorsPart 34 Index