{"product_id":"queering-faith-in-fantasy-literature-1","title":"Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e heterodox, the divine \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e demonic simultaneously, making it uniquely positioned to imaginatively re-envision Christian theology from a position of difference. Having an affinity for the monstrous and the ‘other’, and a preoccupation with desires and forms of embodiment that subvert dominant understandings of reality, fantasy texts hold hitherto unexplored potential for articulating queer and feminist religious perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing primarily on fantastic literature of the mid- to late twentieth century, this book examines how Christian theology in the genre is dismantled, re-imagined and transformed from the margins of gender and sexuality. Aligning fantasy with Derrida’s theories of deconstruction, Taylor Driggers explores how the genre can re-figure God as the ‘other’ excluded and erased from theology. Through careful readings of C.S. Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eTill We Have Faces,\u003c\/i\u003e Angela Carter’s \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of New Eve\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and the Earthsea novels, Driggers contends that fantasy can challenge cis-normative, heterosexual, and patriarchal  theology. Also engaging with the theories of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and Linn Marie Tonstad, this book demonstrates that whilst fantasy cannot save Christianity from itself, nor rehabilitate it for marginalised subjects, it confronts theology with its silenced others in a way that bypasses institutional debates on inclusion and leadership, asking how theology might be imagined otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223610249560,"sku":"9781350231771","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350231771.jpg?v=1770274850","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/queering-faith-in-fantasy-literature-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}