Louisiana Catholic author Tim Gautreaux engages questions of violence and revenge in his two most recent novels, The Clearing (2003) and The Missing (2009). In particular, engaging the popular myth of redemptive violence, The Missing explores the attractiveness of this idea before ultimately revealing the falseness of this simplistic approach to evil. This essay draws on Catholic social teaching as well as theologian Walter Wink's analysis of redemptive violence to investigate the critique of revenge revealed in the novel. Through the protagonist Sam Simoneaux's wrestling with the possibility of revenge juxtaposed with his uncle's quiet Catholic-infused teaching, the novel reveals that a journey toward reclaiming a painful past is only possible if the siren song of vengeance is resisted.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2011
توصيف ظاهري
193-209
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
15/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Catholic social teaching
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
myth of redemptive violence
اصطلاح موضوعی
nonviolence
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
The Clearing
اصطلاح موضوعی
The Missing
اصطلاح موضوعی
Tim Gautreaux
اصطلاح موضوعی
vengeance
اصطلاح موضوعی
Walter Wink
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