While biblical scholars increasingly use insights from postcolonial theory to interpret the Bible, the Bible itself is often neglected by postcolonial criticism, with the result that there is little influence in the other direction: from the Bible to postcolonial criticism. This second edition of Last Stop before Antarctica begins to repair the imbalance by pointing to the vital role that the Bible played in colonization, using Australia one of the first centers of postcolonial criticism as a specific example. Drawing upon colonial literature, including explorer journals, poetry, novels, and translations, it creates a mutually enlightening dialogue between postcolonial literature and biblical texts on themes such as exodus and exile, translation, identity, and home.
Author(s): Roland Boer
Edition: second
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 216
Contents......Page 8
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 10
Preface to the First Edition......Page 14
Introduction: Gatecrashing Thanksgiving: Australian Biblical Studies in the Global Calculus......Page 16
Marx, Postcolonialism, and the Bible......Page 38
The Decree of the Watchers, or, Other Globalizations......Page 52
Explorer Hermeneutics, or Fat Damper and Sweetened Tea......Page 72
Home Is Always Elsewhere: Exodus, Exile, and the Howling Wilderness Waste......Page 96
Green Ants and Gibeonites: B. Wongar, Joshua 9, and Some Problems of Postcolonialism......Page 124
Dreaming the Logos: On Bible Translation and Language......Page 150
Conclusion: (E)Strange Dialectics......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 188
Biblical Index......Page 208
Subject Index......Page 211
Author Index......Page 213
