Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series /

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Main Author: Chapman, Jennie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.