Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World

Kathie Birat is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the University of Lorraine (Metz, France). She has published extensively in the fields of American, African American and Afro-Caribbean literature, with emphasis on questions related to orality and voice.Brigitte Zaugg is Associate Professor at the University of Lorraine (Metz, France), where she teaches American literature and translation. Among the most recent books she has co-edited are L’Espace du Sud au féminin (2011) and Dislocation culturelle et construction identitaire (2012). She is a member of IDEA research group.

• Contents: Demelza Marlin: Incarnation and the Spirit of the Social – Miriam Wallraven: Spirituality and Politics? Spiritual Models of Culture and Methods of World-making in Postmodern Utopian Texts – Françoise Couturier-Storey/Jeff Storey: «God is a cluster of neurons»: Spirituality and Gene Manipulation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake – Mokhtar Ben Barka: Left Behind as an Example of the Intersection between Fiction and Fundamentalist Christianity – Hyesook Son: «Puritan Spirit» and the Question of the Other: A Levinasian Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Religious Poems – Brigitte Zaugg: A Haven for the Suffering Soul: Ellen Glasgow’s Lifelong Quest – Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd: The Lives of a Spirit: Mystical Bewilderment in Fanny Howe’s Fiction – Christophe Lebold: «I’m the little Jew who wrote the Bible». A Reconfiguration of the Devotional Poet for the Age of the Mass Media: Leonard Cohen’s Holy Hoaxes – Stéphanie Carrez: «Fire-Worship»: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Spirituality of Fire – Claude Le Fustec: The Spirit of the Letter: American Literature and the Quest for Kerygmatic Power – Mirjana Danicic: The Spiritual Power of Toni Morrison’s Fiction – Kathie Birat: Syncretism and Spirituality in the Literature of the English-Speaking Caribbean: Erna Brodber’s Myal – Sina Vatanpour: Metaphysics of Language and the Experience of Writing in Paul Auster’s City of Glass.