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Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other /
Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant `Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the `Oth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
T & T Clark,
2019.
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| Colección: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;
647. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant `Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the `Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the `mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780567673770 0567673774 0567673766 9780567673763 9780567686183 0567686183 |