Interpreting Beyond Borders.

This book addresses a fundamental reality of our time: the great movement of people, for a variety of reasons, within and across countries and cultures. From this migration has emerged the ''diasporic intellectual'': the state of dislocation and displacement has become a vantage...

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Main Author: Segovia, Fernando F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000
Series:Bible and postcolonialism.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Interpreting beyond Borders: Postcolonial Studies and Diasporic Studies in Biblical Criticism; Part I: Reading Diaspora; Gustavo GutiĆ©rrez Goes to Disneyland: Theme Park Theologies and the Diaspora of the Discourse of the Popular Theologian in Liberation Theology; Reading-Across: Intercultural Criticism and Textual Posture; My Hermeneutical Journey and Daily Journey into Hermeneutics: Meaning-Making and Biblical Interpretation in the North American Diaspora.
  • Does Diaspora Identity Imply Some Sort of Universality? An Asian-American Reading of GalatiansPart II: Reading from the Diaspora; Hyphenating Joseph: A View of Genesis 39-41 from the Cuban Diaspora; Subversive Promises and the Creation of a Parallel Sphere: Divine Encounters with Hagar and Rebekah; Diasporic Reading of a Diasporic Text: Identity Politics and Race Relations and the Book of Esther; Hermeneutics of the Bible and ''Cricket as Text'': Reading as an Exile; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.