Jeremiah Cataldo

Disembodying Narrative

A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Jeremiah Cataldo subjects the Book of Genesis to postcolonial analysis. He explores the continuing impact that ideological colonialism has not only on dominant traditions of biblical interpretation but also on human social and political relationships touched by assumptions about the Bible, God, power, and human identity.

Produktdetails

• Dispatches from the New Diaspora
• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781978714977
• ISBN-10: 1978714971
• Artikelnr.: 69080174

Autorenporträt

By Jeremiah Cataldo

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Adam, Eve, and Steve's Serpent
Chapter 3: Colonizing Cain
Chapter 4: Highbrow Hamitic Hypothesis
Chapter 5: Flooding the world and saving a few
Chapter 6: Inverting the Tower of Babel
Chapter 7: Father Abraham sentenced a son, or two
Chapter 8: A(n incestual, pedophilic) cave-dwelling Lot
Chapter 9: Sarah's (colonizing) laughter and Hagar's (colonized) tears
Chapter 10: Jacob and Esau
Chapter 11: Joseph from lowly status into authoritative body
Conclusion: Taking stock of the trajectory of Genesis\