On Behalf of Holy Creatures: Hélène Cixous Reads Leviticus, or, la lecture immonde
This article performs a critical creative reading of several texts: Lev 11, Lispector’s The Passion according to G. H., and Cixous’s essay "The School of Roots". Each of these texts seeks to understand the human relation to the animal. Cixous’s project in "The School of Roots" is...
| Published in: | Relegere |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Transforming Biblical Animals |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2018]
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Relegere
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cixous, Hélène 1937-
/ Bible. Levitikus 11
/ Lispector, Clarice 1920-1977, A paixão segundo G.H.
/ Human being
/ Animals
/ Sacred animals
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible |
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| Summary: | This article performs a critical creative reading of several texts: Lev 11, Lispector’s The Passion according to G. H., and Cixous’s essay "The School of Roots". Each of these texts seeks to understand the human relation to the animal. Cixous’s project in "The School of Roots" is, as Derrida does in L’animal, to interrogate and reinscribe the biblical text, so that another relation between the human and the animal might become possible. From the platform that Lispector and Cixous create, this reader seeks to open the biblical text to a counter-reading on behalf of the holy creature. |
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| ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr7-1-2-766 |