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Chloe and her people : a womanist critical dialogue with First Corinthians / Mitzi J. Smith.
Van Pelt Library BS2675.52 .S65 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Corinthians, 1st--Black interpretations.
- Bible. Corinthians, 1st--Feminist criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible. Corinthians, 1st.
- Womanist theology.
- Black interpretations of sacred works.
- Feminist criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Chloe and Her People offers an Africana Womanist reading of First Corinthians that privileges the knowledge, experiences, histories, traditions, voices, and artifacts of Black women and the Black community that challenge or dissent from Paul's rhetorical epistemic constructions. Smith reads First Corinthians dialogically from the perspective of oppressed and marginalized readers situated in front of the text and those muted within and behind the letter. Struggling toward unmitigated freedom, Chloe and Her People talks back to and throws shade on, sometimes poetically, Paul's muting and subordination of women, rhetorically constructed binary knowledge, the glass ceiling placed on women's heads, heterosexual marriage as a mechanism for managing lust, and androcentric patriarchal love built on women's passive bodies." -- Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Chloe and her people: fugitives in search of unmitigated freedom
- Chloe, a freedwoman in first-century Corinth, and Frances Watkins Harper's Aunt Chloe
- Paul's rhetorical construction of divine and worldly epistemologies, the Apollos threat, and Africana wholistic knowledge
- Hands off our hair, Paul!: reading quarely and transgressively to shatter the glass ceiling placed on our heads
- Paul's sexual politics and Black women's contested love: reclaiming hope and the necessity of self-love
- Epilogue: what has Paul to do with us now?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-127).
- ISBN:
- 1725253275
- 9781725253278
- 9781725253285
- 1725253283
- OCLC:
- 1379075544
- Publisher Number:
- 99994261909
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