Innocence and Mercenary Reading: Jacqueline Hidalgo

Professor of theology and religious studies Jacqueline Hidalgo tells us about extractive reading, myths of innocence, and recovering the enjoyment of books. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Newspaper ad for 1921 film I Am Guilty (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Christina Aguilera Hilton Als White Girls Johann Sebastian Bach Anne Carson Paul Celan Ally Condie The Matched Trilogy Roald Dahl "William and Mary" Jacques Derrida Ecclesiastes Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Federico García Lorca Justo L. González Glenn Gould Leo Guardado Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Edward Hirsch How to Read a Poem Edward Hirsch The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration Sylvester A. Johnson The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity Maia Kotrosits R. F. Kuang Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Libby Burton L. Mack A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins Terrence Malick Badlands Terrence Malick The Tree of Life Karl Marx Writings on alienation Cherríe L. Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 Morrissey You Are the Quarry Shaquille O'Neal The Onion"Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu" Elizabeth Pérez "Sorry Cites: The (Necro) Politics of Citation in the Anthropology of Religion" RadioArt(r) The Phone Book Joanne Ramos The Farm Lou Reed "Hangin' Round" Keri Russell Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" Britney Spears The Woman in Me Ben Stiller Reality Bites Justin Timberlake Michelle Williams