Changing Subjects

Gender, Nation and Future in Micah

AvErin Runions

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Coming from a strong gender critical and post-colonial theoretical stance, Runions takes up important questions of the reading process that arise from literary, ideological critical and cultural studies approaches to the Bible. She examines readers' negotiations with the ambiguous configurations of gender, nation and future vision in the book of Micah, using the theoretical work of Homi Bhabha with Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek - all key figures in cultural studies. Her book confronts the problem of the determined subject reading an indeterminate text and suggests that (liminal) identifications with the ambiguities of the book of Micah might reconfigure the readers' own ideological positions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Playing the Texts
Antal sidor:295
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781841272702

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Erin Runions is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Previous publications include 'The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretations' edited with Fiona Black and Roland Boer (1999).

Recensioner i media

"Runions makes a worthy contribution to the study of biblical hermeneutics, especially as it relates to issues of reading theory and gender in the book of Micah... It [the book] is an excellent contribution to the field of biblical studies as it relaties to interpretative theory, gender, and ideology." -Religious Studies Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part 1: Theory Chapter 1: Micah: Text, Interpretation, Readers Text Interpretation Readers In sum: Negotiation Chapter 2: Subject Formation: Identifying with Lack The subject Ideology, materiality, subjectivity; Althusser Ideological interpellation, language and text Ideology, language, subjectivity: Zizek using Lacan The lacking subject Identification with the lack in Other The problem of the fixity of the subject Chapter 3: Bhabha and the Subject: Identifying with Difference Bhabha's project The discourse of subjectivity Pedagogical objects and discourses Performative practices Bhabha and the subject's identification with difference Bhabha and the subject formed in ideology Bhabha and reading Reading Micah