“They Ain’t Whites…They’re Mormons”: Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction
“They Ain’t Whites…They’re Mormons”: Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction
This chapter analyzes the particular strategies popular-fiction writers have inherited and adapted to Mormon subject matter. Pervasive patterns of representation in a host of examples emerge as a means by which Mormon ethnicity and character are constructed in such a way as to alleviate the dread of contagion posed by this “viper on the hearth.” At the same time, these representations, by recasting a religious conflict in terms of political struggle and ideological self-preservation, reveal the ideological conflicts present when a secular, pluralistic democracy engages the heretical.
Keywords: popular fiction writes, mormonism, mormon ethnicity, religious conflict, political struggle, self-preservation
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