Sodomscapes

Hospitality in the Flesh

AvLowell Gallagher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot's wife, as it's been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot's wife in the flight from Sodom is often read to confirm our antiscopic bias, a rival tradition emphasizes the counterintuitive optics required to nurture sustainable habitations for life in view of its unforeseeable contingency.Whether in medieval exegesis, Russian avant-garde art, Renaissance painting, or today's Dead Sea health care tourism industry, the repeated desire to reclaim Lot's wife turns the cautionary emblem of the mutating woman into a figural laboratory for testing the ethical bounds of hospitality. Sodomscape—the book's name for this gesture—revisits touchstone moments in the history of figural thinking and places them in conversation with key thinkers of hospitality. The book's cumulative perspective identifies Lot's wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling, whose in-betweenness discloses counterintuitive ways of understanding what counts as a life amid divergent claims of being-with and being-for.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823275205

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Lowell Gallagher is Professor of English at UCLA where he teaches Renaissance literature, critical theory, and biblical studies. He is the author of Medusa's Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance, and co-editor of Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives.

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"Lowell Gallagher's Sodomscapes is a stunningly learned and creative engagement with the ethics of looking back--looking back at a past littered with the calcified remains of those rendered mute by traditional Western Christian and philosophical morality and looking back at the other in a pose of vulnerable and creative welcome to a radically unknowable future. Attending to the figure of Lot's wife in a wide range of images, texts, and imagetexts from across the Jewish and Christian traditions and into secular modernity, Gallagher shows that Sodom was always about the double edge of hospitality. In the process Gallagher uncovers and creates a 'counter-memory of Lot's wife' in which homelessness and home, stranger and beloved, danger and hope stand in radical proximity." -- -Amy Hollywood Harvard Divinity School

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Entering Sodomscape Introduction: Figural Moorings of Hospitality in Sodomscape 1. Exodus, Interrupted: Lot's Wife and the Allegorical Interval 2. Figural Neuter, Desert of Allegory 3. Remembering Lot's Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward 4. Avant-Garde Lot's Wife: Natal'ia Goncharova's Salt Pillars and the Rebirth of Hospitality 5. Soundings in Sodomscape: Biblical Purity Codes, Spa Clinics, and the Ends of Immunity 6. The Face of the Contemporary: Lost World Fantasies of Finding Lot's Wife 7. Out of Africa: Albert Memmi's Desert of Allegory in Pillar of Salt Acknowledgments Notes Index