Act One. Comfort the Waste Places, Defend the Violated Earth: an ecofeminist reading of Isaiah 51:1-52:6 and Tracy Chapman's "The Rage of the World"
This paper compares the personification of Zion in Isaiah 51:1-52:6 as a mother and daughter with Tracy Chapman's 1995 song "The rape of the world" where the earth is portrayed as mother. I will explore the use of rape imagery and how both pieces portray the negative effects of human...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie
[2020]
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Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 21-33 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Jesaja 51,1-52,6
/ Chapman, Tracy 1964-, The rape of the world
/ Ecofeminism
/ Earth (Mother goddess)
/ Rape
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Rape
B Tracy Chapman B Zion B Mother B Music B Pop Culture B Isaiah |
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| Summary: | This paper compares the personification of Zion in Isaiah 51:1-52:6 as a mother and daughter with Tracy Chapman's 1995 song "The rape of the world" where the earth is portrayed as mother. I will explore the use of rape imagery and how both pieces portray the negative effects of human activity on the earth, whether by commercial activity or war. The environmental impact of the desolation of the earth during the Babylonian exile depicted in Isaiah and its portrayal via gendered images is viewed through the lens of ecofeminist criticism. The earth itself has a voice in both Chapman’s and Isaiah’s words. |
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| ISSN: | 2617-3697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25364/05.6:2020.2.2 |