Last stop before Antarctica: The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia
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.
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