RT Book
T1 Narrative desire and the Book of Ruth
T2 The Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies
T2 The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
A1 Powell, Stephanie Day
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
YR 2018
ED 1st ed
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1014875110
AB Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviation -- Chapter 1 Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth -- Introduction: “Do Not Press Me to Leave You” -- Finding Our Past -- Reading Desire -- Woman-Identified Hermeneutics -- Ruth and Its Interpretation -- Narrative Desire: Reading Ruth with Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva -- From Resistance to Re-engagement -- Chapter 2 Resistance: Ambiguity and Artistry in the Book of Ruth -- The Queer Traces of Ruth -- Queer Beginnings -- The Perversities of the Middle -- A Queer Future? -- Ambiguity and Desire -- Chapter 3 Rupture: Ruth and Fried Green Tomatoes -- Fried Green Appropriations -- Ambiguating Strategies -- The Power of “Friends” -- Intersecting Ambiguities -- The Heroine Disappears -- Historical Gleanings: A Diverse Community -- Chapter 4 Reclamation: Ruth and Oranges are not the Only Fruit -- You Say Tomato, I Say Orange: Reconfiguring Ruth -- From Origins to Exile -- From Exile to Return -- Not the Only Fruit: Ruth as Woman-Identified Daughter -- The Mother’s House -- Of Mothers, Demons, and Daughterhood -- Historical Gleanings: Finding Autonomy -- Chapter 5 Re-Engagement: Ruth and Golem, the Spirit of Exile -- Golem, the Spirit of Exile -- Love in Exile -- Losses Denied -- Heterosexual Melancholia, Redux -- Loss upon Loss -- Historical Gleanings: A History of Loss -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: (Un)Final Gleanings -- Returning to the Mother Text -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Scripture Index -- Subject Index
OP 215
CN 222.3506
SN 978-0-567-67876-8
K1 Electronic books