Changing Subjects Gender, Nation and Future in Micah

by Runions, Erin

• ISBN13: 9781841272696
• ISBN10: 1841272698
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-30
• Publisher: T&T Clark

Summary

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 ambiguitiesof the book of Micah might reconfigure the readers' own ideological positions.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Theory
Reading Micah: Text, Interpretation, Readers	p. 18
Subject Formation: Identifying with Lack	p. 44
Bhabha and the Subject: Identifying with Difference	p. 74
Readings
The Changing Subjects of Micah: Gender, Nation, Future	p. 120
Damsels in Distress: Pedagogical Objects and Discourses	p. 182
Outside the Sentence: The Performative Practice of the Text	p. 210
Conclusion	p. 250
Glossary	p. 256
Appendix	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 262
Index of References	p. 286
Index of Authors	p. 292
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