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Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter. James opposes the exploitation of the Roman Empire and a peculiar Pauline form of hybridity that compromises with it; refutes Roman cultural practices, such as the patronage system and economic practices, that threaten the identity of the letter’s recipients; and condemns those who would transgress the boundaries between purity and impurity, God and “world.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-ix
- Constructing the Native
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 3-12
- 2. Nativism
- pp. 13-50
- Confronting Colonialism and Hating Hybridity
- 4. Identifying the Imperial Presence
- pp. 109-170
- 5. Identifying the Mimetic Monster, Part 1
- pp. 171-228
- 6. Identifying the Mimetic Monster, Part 2
- pp. 229-276
- 7. Conclusion
- pp. 277-280
- Bibliography
- pp. 281-296
- Index of Subjects and Names
- pp. 297-304
Additional Information
ISBN
9781506400358
MARC Record
OCLC
914433222
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-17
Language
English
Open Access
No