Psychoanalytic mediations between Marxist and postcolonial readings of the Bible

"This volume pursues critical readings of the Bible that put psychoanalysis into conversation with Marxist and postcolonial criticism of the Bible. Psychoanalysis is considered an important tool in understanding how the traumas of colonialism manifest both materially and psychically. Further, p...

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Collaborateurs: Liew, Tat-siong Benny (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Runions, Erin 1967- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
Service de livraison Subito: Commander maintenant.
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Atlanta SBL Press [2016]
Dans: Semeia studies (number 84)
Année: 2016
Collection/Revue:Semeia studies Atlanta, Ga. number 84
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Critique de la Bible / Marxisme / Psychologie
Classifications IxTheo:HA Bible
Sujets non-standardisés:B Bible Psychology
B Psychology
B Bible
B Marxist criticism
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Postcolonial criticism
B Recueil d'articles
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible Postcolonial criticism
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Résumé:"This volume pursues critical readings of the Bible that put psychoanalysis into conversation with Marxist and postcolonial criticism of the Bible. Psychoanalysis is considered an important tool in understanding how the traumas of colonialism manifest both materially and psychically. Further, psychoanalysis provides a way to mediate between Marxism's materialist groundings and postcolonialism's resistance against empire. The essays in the volume illuminate the way empire has shaped the biblical text, by looking at the biblical texts' silences, ruptures, oversights, over-emphases, and inexplicable elements. These details are read as symptoms of a set of oppressive material relations that shaped and continue to haunt the text in the ascendancy of the text in the name of "the West"--
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Description matérielle:viii, 241 Seiten
ISBN:1628371412