PROPHETS POSTCOLONIALLY: INITIAL INSIGHTS FOR A POSTCOLONIAL READING OF PROPHETIC LITERATURE
Steed Vernyl Davidson
ABSTRACT
This article examines the conception of the genre prophetic literature and how a postcolonial examination probes its production. A postcolonial engagement can offer more than simply anticolonial resistance discourse as can be gleaned from the theo-political contexts of prophetic material. Drawing on Homi Bhabha’s reflection on ‘the book’, other postcolonial theorists, as well as genre theory, the article traces elements that constitute a ‘prophetic book’ and interrogates the power of the canonical category ‘prophetic literature’. In the end it offers three defining features of a postcolonially resituated reading of prophetic literature.
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prophets
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