Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature
prominently in so many influential and innovative works of
contemporary U.S. literature? More pointedly, why would a book
indelibly allied with a long history of institutionalized
oppressions play a supporting role-and not simply as an object of
critique-in a wide variety of landmark literary representations of
marginalized subjectivities? The answers to these questions go
beyond mere playful re-appropriations or subversive
resignifications of biblical themes, figures, and forms. This book
shows how certain contemporary authors invoke the Bible in ways
that undermine clear distinctions between "subversive" and
"traditional"-indeed, that undermine clear distinctions between
"secular" and "sacred." By tracing a key source of such complex
literary invocations of the Bible back to William Faulkner's major
novels, Provincializing the Bible argues that these literary works,
which might be termed postsecular, ironically provincialize the
Bible as a means of reevaluating and revalorizing its significance
in contemporary American culture.
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