Of fine wine, incense and spices : the unstable masculine hegemony of the books of Chronicles / by Roland Boer

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Of fine wine, incense and spices : the unstable masculine hegemony of the books of Chronicles / by Roland Boer

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Description

Suggests that the double book of Chronicles in the Bible is not a solidly masculine zone dominated by a seamless hegemony. Making use of the theories of Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci and Antonio Negri on unstable hegemonies and constitutive resistance, looks for signs of trouble in the dominant hegemony of the text by exploring the utopian/dystopian ripples around a very phallic temple, the overdone camp of the mighty warriors, and the concern with crucial matters of cultic performance, s...

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Format

Journal

Date created

Jan 2010

Creator

Boer, Roland, (Australian National University, Research School of the Humanities)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20500788

Related subjects

Men in the Bible / Masculinity in literature / Hegemony / Bible.

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