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This common emphasis on religion offers an alternative to popular critical conceptions of the called Global South (i.e., the American South, Caribbean basin and Latin America) that limit themselves to the region’s common history of slavery and colonialism. While these connections are relevant, I suggest that examining the characters’ creation of new religious movements in the novels demonstrates their rejection of imposed paradigms from other regions, especially European philosophical and literary models. The often violent results of the movements in the novels highlight the distinction of religion from other social analytical categories, while also reflecting the violence of the mainstream culture in which the movement forms. In a global society popularly considered increasingly secular, the potency of religious discourse in this dissertation’s four novels demonstrates the continuing relevance of religious discourse for confirming or subverting the values of the dominant culture."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["\"A Paradise Within\": Spiritual Responses to Modernity in Four Novels of the Global South"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Schmid, David","English"],"dc:creator":["Ryan, Hannah; 0000-0003-3785-1688"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:47:54Z","2019","2019-08-05 11:53:32"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation examines the explicit and spectral presence of religion in four novels of the Global South: Machado de Assis’ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Walker Percy’s Lancelot, and Wilson Harris’ Jonestown. 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The often violent results of the movements in the novels highlight the distinction of religion from other social analytical categories, while also reflecting the violence of the mainstream culture in which the movement forms. In a global society popularly considered increasingly secular, the potency of religious discourse in this dissertation’s four novels demonstrates the continuing relevance of religious discourse for confirming or subverting the values of the dominant culture."],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["http://hdl.handle.net/10477/80891"],"dc:language":["eng"],"dc:publisher":["State University of New York at Buffalo"],"dc:rights":["Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. 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