Postsecular community : religion as literary form and political theory in post-1959 Mexican fiction
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- 'Postsecular Community' examines the construction of social and political community in three Mexican novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. I show that where the national community is seen to be in crisis, these novels by Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, and Yuri Herrera mobilize religious concepts to present alternative models for social connection: each depicts a being-in-common based on subjective interdependence. In this way, concepts from the Maya, Christian, and Nahua traditions shed light on uniquely modern conflicts, yielding what I call a postsecular perspective. The dissertation shows a new role for religion in Mexico's secularizing 20th century: not simply a political agenda or folkloric tradition, religion is a vital conceptual resource for theorizing new forms of collectivity.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | VanBladel, Monica |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Surwillo, Lisa |
| Thesis advisor | Valle, Ivonne del |
| Degree committee member | Surwillo, Lisa |
| Degree committee member | Valle, Ivonne del |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Monica VanBladel. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Monica VanBladel
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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