Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics a case study of the Agδikδuyδu encounter with the Bible /
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Peter Lang,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10600726 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory
- Bible and colonial identities: colonial constructions, representations and marginality
- Location of culture in the colonial hermeneutics: ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity
- Bible translation and the discourse of colonalism: the Gδikδuyδu Bible
- The role of common sense hermeneutics: the translated texts and the types of reading
- Resistance as a discursive practice
- The discourse of resistance and the "hidden transcript": the revival option
- Towards an ordinary African readers' hermeneutics
- General conclusion.