This is the first single-authored book on Asian American biblical interpretation. It covers all of the major genres within the New Testament and broadens biblical hermeneutics to cover not only the biblical texts, but also Asian American literature and current films and events like genome research and September 11. Despite its range, the book is organized around three foci: methodology (the distinguishing characteristics or sensibilities of Asian American biblical hermeneutics), community (the politics of inclusion and exclusion), and agency. The work intentionally affirms Asian America as a panethnic coalition while acknowledging the differences within it. In other words, it attempts to balance Asian American panethnicity and heterogeneity, or coalition building and identity politics.
Author(s): Tat-Siong Benny Liew
Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 281
Contents
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Preface......Page 10
1 What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Medi(t)ations on and for a Conversation......Page 18
2 Reading with Yin Yang Eyes: Negotiating the Ideological Dilemma of a Chinese American Biblical Hermeneutics......Page 35
3 Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John’s Community of “Upward” Mobility......Page 51
4 Overlapping (His)Stories: Reading Acts in Chinese America......Page 74
5 Redressing Bodies in Corinth: Racial/Ethnic Politics and Religious Difference in the Context of Empire......Page 92
6 Melancholia in Diaspora: Reading Paul’s Psycho-Political Operatives in 1 Corinthians......Page 115
7 Immigrants and Intertexts: Biblical In(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee......Page 132
8 Telling Times in (Asian) America: Extraordinary Poetics, Everyday Politics, and Endless Paradoxes......Page 151
Notes......Page 164
Works Cited......Page 224
Index......Page 268
