Dancing in the Flames
Spiritual Journey in the Novels of Lee Smith
Linda Byrd
Cook
ISBN
978-0-7864-4110-5
notes, bibliography, index
248pp.
softcover
2009
Available for immediate shipment
Description
This book examines Lee Smith’s novel-length fiction and its powerful reflection of her personal search for and journey toward spiritual reconciliation. The protagonists of Smith’s novels feel estranged from any sense of feminine sacredness as they struggle for a belief system that offers them hope and validation.
Chapters describe how Smith has retrieved in her fiction a source of transformative power--the power of the sexual, maternal, feminine divine--in hopes of creating a new image of the total, sacred female whose sexuality, creativity, spirituality, and maternity can reside comfortably in the bodies of everyday heroines.
About the Author
Linda Byrd Cook is an associate professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She resides in Conroe.
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