Description: Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis : The Subject and the Other, Paperback by Matskevich, Karalina; Mein, Andrew (EDT); Camp, Claudia V. (EDT), ISBN 0567695514, ISBN-13 9780567695512, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 haadam 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 haadam 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 mothers 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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Book Title: Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis : The Subject and
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis : the Subject and the Other
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Biblical Studies / Old Testament
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion
Author: Karalina Matskevich
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Format: Trade Paperback
