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Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis

The Subject and the Other [Hardback]

by Karalina Matskevich

    • Author

      Karalina Matskevich

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      November 2017

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    Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis

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    Product Description

    Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity ? Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other.

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    • Author

      Karalina Matskevich

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      November 2017

    • Weight

      386g

    • Page Count

      224

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 17 mm

    • ISBN

      9780567673763

    • ISBN-10

      0567673766

    • Eden Code

      4517543

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    • Author/Creator: Karalina Matskevich

    • ISBN: 9780567673763

    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Release Date: November 2017

    • Weight: 386g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17 mm

    • Eden Code: 4517543

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