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Journal Article
Reading the Supernatural in Contemporary American Ethnic and Christian Fiction
2015
Overview
This essay intends to shed some light on the question of why ethnic supernatural fiction and Christian supernatural fiction have fared so differently among professional readers. It seeks to delineate ethnic and Christian supernatural fictions as literary genres, offer some necessary differentiations, and more clearly shows the strategies by which these bodies of literature represent the supernatural. Moreover, it wants to examine the deep similarities in the way these fictions are read by “ordinary,” non-professional readers, and why they are read, and what they do for people. For this purpose, this essay will briefly consider the respective histories of the literatures, and one paradigmatic text for each type of supernatural literature will be discussed in a little more detail. As an example of ethnic supernatural fiction, Louise Erdrich’s 2005 novel The Painted Drum will be examined, while William Paul Young’s 2008 bestseller The Shack will serve to illustrate the treatment of the supernatural in evangelical fiction.
