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Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis

The Subject and the Other

by Karalina Matskevich

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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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.
Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis and Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis: The Subject and the Other
Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis: The Subject and the OtherConstruction of Gender and Identity in Genesis

  • Author

    Karalina Matskevich

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    November 2017

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567673763

  • ISBN-10

    0567673766

  • Eden Code

    4517543

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