“My Name was Christian.” C.K. Stead, Religion, Culture and National Identity
Culminating in My Name is Judas (2006), New Zealand writer C.K. Stead has wrestled and argued with religious belief as both cultural legacy and cultural constraint. This paper argues that central to Stead’s modernism and post-colonial nationalism is the overcoming of religion as a constantly unfinis...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Culminating in My Name is Judas (2006), New Zealand writer C.K. Stead has wrestled and argued with religious belief as both cultural legacy and cultural constraint. This paper argues that central to Stead’s modernism and post-colonial nationalism is the overcoming of religion as a constantly unfinished project of modernity, with Zen positioned as an alternative. Yet Stead’s cultural modernism finds him, like Judas, increasingly isolated and dislocated in society where ‘many have lost their heads’. |
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