Disembodying Narrative: A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis

Jeremiah Cataldo explores how postcolonialism challenges dominant traditions of interpreting Genesis and how those traditions influence who we are, how we relate to each other, how we read the Bible, and why we cling to what divides us.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 21 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Bible's first book, Genesis, has been a rich source of theological and philosophical ideas about social organization, human relationships, class, gender, and gender roles, marriage, land rights, private property, and more. For many readers, assumptions about a divine creator who has a particular eye on a favored community are central to Western societies and politics and are deeply embedded in many national foundation myths. However, despite the widespread influence of Genesis, it is not often the subject of postcolonial analyses that aim to expose the roots of inequalities within dominant social, political, and economic institutions. In his book, Jeremiah Cataldo explores how postcolonialism's rudeness, anger, and subversiveness challenge dominant traditions of interpreting Genesis and how these traditions shape our identities, relationships, reading of the Bible, and our persistent attachment to what divides us, even in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Cataldo's work is both provocative and conciliatory, offering a fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by postcolonialism in our understanding of Genesis.

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781978714977