Subverting scriptures: critical reflections on the use of the bible

This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, and how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, and why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: SETTING THE STAGE: WHAT IS SUBVERSIVE SCRIPTURE? - Walking the (Damascus Road) Line: The Irony of Appropriation in JohnnyCash's Man in White; J.Twomey - Refuse, Realism, and Retelling: Literal and Literary Takes on Noah's Ark; L.Cushing - Literary Hijackings: Between the Bookof Isaiah and The Handmaid's Tale; Q.Tan - PART II: BETWEEN SPEECH AND SILENCE - Face to Face: Biblical Traces in the Philosophy of Elie Wiesel; J.Roth - Mother Tongue, Holy Tongue: On Translating and Not Translating Paul Celan; J.Felstiner - PART III: REVOLUTION, REBELLION, LIBERATION - Flight, Rapture, and Transcendence: Imagination and the Politics of Nostalgia in the African American Diaspora; L.James - Exodus and Redemption in Toni Morrison's Paradise: a Magical Encounter with the Bible; A.Hartnell - In the Beginning- Big Bang: The Issue of Violence in Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle; E.Jimmerson - PART IV: VIOLENCE, POWER, PROPHECY - Babel Revisited: Kafka and Pinter Critique the Covenant; B.Hawkins Benedix - Masters, Slaves, and the Implacable Deity of the Wilderness in Simone Zelitch's Moses in Sinai; R.Omer-Sherman - The Modern Day Followers of the Lamb: The Rhetoric of Suffering and the Politics of Identity in The Left Behind Series; D.Hall - Subversion as Return: Scripture, Dissent, and Renewal in Contemporary Judaism; S.Magid

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61069-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés