Changing Subjects
Gender, Nation and Future in Micah
Published on 1. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
295 pages
978-1-84127-270-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84127-270-2 (9781841272702)
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Person
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).
Content
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