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Gender and Apocalyptic Desire

Author : Brenda E. Brasher,Lee Quinby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317488866

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The female body has been an object of oppression and control throughout history. 'Gender and Apocalyptic Desire' exposes the often-hidden links between the struggles of women and the conflict of good versus evil. The essays examine the collisions between feminist and apocalyptic thought, the ways in which apocalyptic belief functions as bodily discipline and cultural practice, and how some currents of apocalyptic desire can enable women's equality. A wide range of issues are examined, from anti-abortion terrorism to the stigmata of Christ and visions of Mary.

Gender and Apocalyptic Desire

Author : Brenda E. Brasher,Lee Quinby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1904768857

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Gender and Apocalyptic Desire by Brenda E. Brasher,Lee Quinby Pdf

In a time when struggles over the place of women are paralleled by struggles over Good versus Evil, this volume exposes the often-veiled links between these two systems of meaning. The essays collected here highlight the intertwining desires of gender stability and apocalyptic truth even as they show that these desires are often internally combustible, a clearing out of the old to make way for new forms. Contributors explore both collusion and collisions between feminist and apocalyptic thought, the various ways in which apocalyptic belief functions as bodily discipline and cultural practice, and finally, the means by which some currents of apocalyptic desire can enable women's equality.

Death and Desire

Author : Tina Pippin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725294189

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This innovative study of the use of gender in the Apocalypse of John pushes against the boundaries of feminist biblical interpretation. Based on sociopolitical and literary readings of texts, it presents a challenging new way of reading the Apocalypse. Using the concept of catharsis, Tina Pippin focuses on two themes central to the Apocalypse—death and desire. She examines the role of the female in fantastic literature and reviews the social construction of gender and of the female body. In this interdisciplinary investigation, Pippin incorporates fantasy theory and the function of the female in the fantastic to expose the Apocalypse’s ambiguous representation of women.

Gender and Apocalyptic Desire

Author : Brenda E. Brasher,Lee Quinby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317488873

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Gender and Apocalyptic Desire by Brenda E. Brasher,Lee Quinby Pdf

The female body has been an object of oppression and control throughout history. 'Gender and Apocalyptic Desire' exposes the often-hidden links between the struggles of women and the conflict of good versus evil. The essays examine the collisions between feminist and apocalyptic thought, the ways in which apocalyptic belief functions as bodily discipline and cultural practice, and how some currents of apocalyptic desire can enable women's equality. A wide range of issues are examined, from anti-abortion terrorism to the stigmata of Christ and visions of Mary.

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film

Author : Barbara Gurr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137493316

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Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film by Barbara Gurr Pdf

This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals through sociological, anthropological, historical, and feminist approaches.

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137486509

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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins Pdf

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

The Apocalyptic Complex

Author : Nadia Al-Bagdadi,David Marno,Matthias Riedl
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786155225383

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The Apocalyptic Complex by Nadia Al-Bagdadi,David Marno,Matthias Riedl Pdf

The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, followed by similarly dreadful acts of terror, prompted a new interest in the field of the apocalyptic. There is a steady output of literature on the subject (also referred to as “the End Times.) This book analyzes this continuously published literature and opens up a new perspective on these views of the apocalypse. The thirteen essays in this volume focus on the dimensions, consequences and transformations of Apocalypticism. The authors explore the everyday relevance of the apocalyptic in contemporary society, culture, and politics, side by side with the various histories of apocalyptic ideas and movements. In particular, they seek to better understand the ways in which perceptions of the apocalypse diverge in the American, European, and Arab worlds. Leading experts in the field re-evaluate some of the traditional views on the apocalypse in light of recent political and cultural events, and, go beyond empirical facts to reconsider the potential of the apocalyptic. This last point is the focal point of the book.

Facing Apocalypse

Author : Keller, Catherine
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608338771

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"The biblical Apocalypse of John offers a lens for considering the apocalyptic challenges of our time"--

Apocalypse Recalled

Author : Harry O. Maier
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451409524

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"In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship."--BOOK JACKET.

The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

Author : Eric Knibbs,Jessica A. Boon,Erica Gelser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030149659

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The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality by Eric Knibbs,Jessica A. Boon,Erica Gelser Pdf

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.

Plotting Apocalypse

Author : Jennie Chapman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617039041

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It is the not-too-distant future, and the rapture has occurred. Every born-again Christian on the planet has, without prior warning, been snatched from the earth to meet Christ in the heavens, while all those without the requisite faith have been left behind to suffer the wrath of the Antichrist as the earth enters into its final days. This is the premise that animates the enormously popular cultural phenomenon that is the Left Behind series of prophecy novels, co-written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and published between 1995 and 2007. But these books are more than fiction: it is the sincere belief of many evangelicals that these events actually will occur—soon. Plotting Apocalypse delves into the world of rapture, prophecy, and tribulation in order to account for the extraordinary cultural salience of these books and the impact of the world they project. Through penetrating readings of the novels, Chapman shows how the series offers a new model of evangelical agency for its readership. The novels teach that although believers are incapable of changing the course of a future that has been preordained by God, they can become empowered by learning to read the prophetic books of the Bible—and the signs of the times—correctly. Reading and interpretation become key indices of agency in the world that Left Behind limns. Plotting Apocalypse reveals the significant cultural work that Left Behind performs in developing a counter-narrative to the passivity and fatalism that can characterize evangelical prophecy belief. Chapman’s arguments may bear profound implications for the future of American evangelicalism and its interactions with culture, society, and politics.

Marguerite Duras

Author : Leslie Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134942725

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Marguerite Duras by Leslie Hill Pdf

Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other self, Duras is revealed to be a profoundly transgressive thinker and artist. It will be a must for all concerned with contemporary writing, writing by women, recent European cinema, film and literature.

Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV

Author : Eve Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501331091

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Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV by Eve Bennett Pdf

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters were either threatened or actually took place. During the same period numerous commentators observed that the American media's representation of gender had undergone a marked regression, possibly, it was suggested, as a consequence of the 9/11 attacks and the feelings of weakness and insecurity they engendered in the nation's men. Eve Bennett investigates whether the same impulse to return to traditional images of masculinity and femininity can be found in the contemporary cycle of apocalyptic series, programmes which, like 9/11 itself, present plenty of opportunity for narratives of damsels-in-distress and heroic male rescuers. However, as this book shows, whether such narratives play out in the expected manner is another matter.

Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture

Author : Monica Germana,Aris Mousoutzanis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134667543

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Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture by Monica Germana,Aris Mousoutzanis Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world’s globalised space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship between language and eschatological belief, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy. The collection seeks to offer a new reading of the apocalypse, understood as a complex – and, frequently, paradoxical – paradigm of (contemporary) Western culture. The majority of published collections on the subject have been published prior to the year 2000 and, in their majority of cases, locate the apocalypse in the future and envision it as something imminent. This collection offers a post-millennial perspective that perceives "the end" as immanent and, simultaneously, rooted in the past tradition.

The End of Man

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452957777

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Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes Where the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere, Joanna Zylinska has a different take. The End of Man rethinks the prophecy of the end of humans, interrogating the rise in populism around the world and offering an ethical vision of a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which challenges many of the masculinist and technicist solutions to our planetary crises. The book is accompanied by a short photo-film, Exit Man, which ultimately asks: If unbridled progress is no longer an option, what kinds of coexistences and collaborations do we create in its aftermath? Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.