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Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus - Couverture souple

McKinlay, Judith E.

 
9781905048694: Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1905048696 ISBN 13 : 9781905048694
Editeur : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006

Synopsis

How does one read the story of Sarah and Hagar, or Jezebel and Rahab today, if one is a woman reader situated in a postcolonial society? This is the question undergirding this work, which considers a selection of biblical texts in which women have significant roles. Employing both a gender and a postcolonial lens, it asks sharp questions both of the interests embedded in the texts themselves and of their impact upon contemporary women readers. Whereas most postcolonial studies have been undertaken from the perspective of the colonized this work reads the texts from the position of a settler descendant, and is an attempt to engage with the disquietening and challenging questions that reading from such a location raises. Letters from early settler women in New Zealand, contemporary fiction, and personal reminiscence become tools for the task, complementing those traditionally employed in critical biblical readings.

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Éditeur
Sheffield Phoenix Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905048696
ISBN 13 
9781905048694
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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