Cargando…

Plotting Apocalypse : Reading, Agency, and Identity in the Left Behind Series /

It is the not-too-distant future, and the rapture has occurred. Every born-again Christian on the planet has, without prior warning, been snatched from the earth to meet Christ in the heavens - while all those without the requisite faith have been left behind to suffer the wrath of the Antichrist as...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chapman, Jennie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cracking the prophecy code : reading as an act of agency
  • The paranoia of plot : narrative, conspiracy, and agency
  • "What a show!" : apocalyptic spectacle and the agency of watching
  • "In the world but not of it" : agency and social engagement
  • A very American apocalypse : Left Behind's neoliberal end-times vision
  • The revelation will be televised : media, celebrity, and authority in Left Behind
  • Negotiated agency : female subjectivities at the end of history
  • Queering the apocalypse : homosocial, homophobic, and homoerotic subjectivities in Left Behind
  • Conclusion : Both now and not yet : reading in the shadow of the rapture.