Postcolonial literature and the biblical call for justice
By: edited by Susan VanZanten Gallagher.
Contributors: Gallagher, Susan V.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Christianity and literature; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Justice in literature; Postcolonialism
Description: Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes upon their conquered subjects. In the waning of imperialism the newly emerging peoples employed these same biblical codes as their cries for freedom and justice as they drove out their former masters.

This collection of twelve essays exposes this tool of oppression as a tool of justice in works from Latin American, Native American, African, and Middle Eastern authors. Drawing on a variety of theological perspectives, including liberation theology, feminist theology and the Reformed tradition, the contributors examine works by a number of international authors.

Represented are works by Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia), Isabel Allende (Chile), Julio Cortazar (Argentina), Nicholas Black Elk and Charles Eastman (United States), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Andre Brink (South Africa), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Michael Walzer (Israel), and Edward Said (Palestine), and others.

These writers from postcolonial lands express readings of individual biblical texts as well as theoretical discussion of such issues as the challenge biblical justice makes to poststructuralism, the tensions in synthesizing Christianity and indigenous cultures, and the ethical dilemmas faced by writers opposing injustice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.