James in Postcolonial Perspective : The Letter as Nativist Discourse /

Show other versions (1)

James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial theory and the theoretical perspectives of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter. The emphasis in James,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coker, K. Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bible > Postcolonial criticism.
Bible. > James > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • part I. Constructing the native
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Nativism
  • 3. Pure and perfect piety : nativist discourse in the Letter of James
  • part II. Confronting colonialism and hating hybridity
  • 4. Identifying the imperial presence
  • 5. Identifying the mimetic monster, part 1
  • 6. Identifying the mimetic monster, part 2
  • 7. Conclusion.

Similar Items