'How Shall I be Saved?' The Salvation of Mrs Curren in Coetzee's Age of Iron

dc.contributor.author	Purcell, William M.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-29T05:51:06Z
dc.date.available	2013-10-29T05:51:06Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	Previous scholarship has ignored extensive Christian references in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, focusing instead on the story as an allegory for political struggle in South Africa. The thesis of this paper is that Age of Iron should also be read as an account of Christian salvation in which a lost soul, Mrs Curren, is saved by learning to love the unloved and unlovable. The narrative of Mrs Curren's salvation is crafted via references to a variety of Christian scriptures including John, Luke, Matthew, Mark, Hebrews, Corinthians, James, and Amos, as well as the Dies irae, a portion of the Requiem Mass.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1836-4845
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2328/27123
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Transnational Literature	en
dc.subject	Articles	en
dc.subject	J.M. Coetzee	en
dc.subject	South African literature	en
dc.subject	Age of Iron	en
dc.subject	Christian imagery	en
dc.subject	Religious imagery	en
dc.title	'How Shall I be Saved?' The Salvation of Mrs Curren in Coetzee's Age of Iron	en
dc.type	Article	en

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