Feminist Revision and the Bible: The Unwritten Volume / Edition 1

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Overview

What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. The author proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways, which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within scripture iteself. Ultimately Ostriker suggests that feminist reinterpretations of scripture are the inevitable consequence of spiritual values which ask us to turn from institutions to the meaning of the original revelation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631187981
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/02/1993
Series:	Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory , #7
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.53(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven volumes of poetry, as well as Vision and Verse in William Blake and an annotated edition of Blake's Complete Poems. Her work as a feminist critic includes Writing like a Woman and the widely influential and controversial Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Out of My Sight.

2. A Word made Flesh.

3. The Lilith Poems.

4. An Interview with Alicia Ostriker.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

" Highly Recommended". Cross Currents

"An essentially optimistic, as well as delightfully iconoclastic, reading of scripture." Church Times

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