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Tables of Contents for Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
1
10
PART I: POSTCOLONIAL CONSTRUALS
Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism
11
32
The arrival of postcolonial criticism
14
4
Creative literature
18
3
The contours of postcolonial criticism
21
3
Clarification of the lexicon
24
1
Postcolonialism and biblical studies
25
1
Empire and theological reflections
26
2
Postcolonial criticism and cognate disciplines---feminism
28
2
Global intentions and postcolonial concerns
30
3
Is the United States postcolonial?
33
3
Concerns, temptations, conclusions
36
7
Redress, Regeneration, Redemption: A Survey of Biblical Interpretation
43
31
Dissident readings
44
8
Resistant readings
52
3
Heritagist readings
55
8
Nationalistic readings
63
2
Liberationist readings
65
2
Dissentient readings
67
3
Concluding remarks
70
4
Coding and Decoding: Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation
74
29
Orientalist tendencies
75
4
Decoding texts
79
7
Jesus and the colonial context
86
5
Colonial trauma and madness: The case of the Gerasene Demoniac
91
3
Transcending the text, visualizing the reality
94
3
Propagandist literature or confessional writings
97
6
Convergent Trajectories? Liberation Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
103
24
Marks of classic liberation hermeneutics
104
3
Gutierrez's Job
107
3
Tamez's Paul
110
2
Liberation hermeneutics and its entanglements
112
3
Religion and liberation
115
2
Postcolonialism and liberation hermeneutics as companions in struggle
117
10
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL PREOCCUPATIONS
The Version on Which the Sun Never Sets: The English Bible and its Authorizing Tendencies
127
28
The context of the English Bible
129
2
The rise of the English Bible
131
3
The Englishness of the Bible
134
5
Simple people and the simplicity of the Scripture: The Geneva Bible
139
5
A text for the empire: A post-imperial footnote
144
1
Colonial parallels
145
5
Concluding remarks
150
5
Blotting the Masters Copy: Locating Bible Translation
155
24
Confusing and confused tongues
156
5
Dismissing and embracing
161
3
Translations and their preoccupations
164
4
A postcolonial gaze at the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
168
3
Some notes on postcolonial biblical translation
171
8
Hermeneutics in Transit: Diaspora and Interpretation
179
21
Defining diaspora
180
3
Postcolonialism and diaspora
183
2
Uprootings of text and persons: Diaspora and biblical interpretation
185
5
Diasporic hermeneutics: Some markers
190
5
Some concluding remarks
195
5
Afterword
200
8
References
208
17
Index of biblical references
225
2
Index of names and subjects
227