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>The Lukan Parable of the Great Supper: A womanist socio-historical reading of slavery and resistance using the amended parable theory of Octavia E. Butler.
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The Lukan Parable of the Great Supper: A womanist socio-historical reading of slavery and resistance using the amended parable theory of Octavia E. Butler.
In this dissertation, I explore the works of the African-American feminist novelist Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) and show how her novels, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents and Kindred and her understanding of parables, allow the world to see her as one who is a leading voice, thinker and innovator of biblical parable theory. Additionally, this dissertation develops a theory of reading the parables of Jesus based on Butler's works and applies this theory within a Womanist socio-historical context to the Lukan Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:15-24) to create a short narrative recontextualized reading of resistance to enslavement. This dissertation advances the scholarship on Octavia E. Butler by bringing the amended parable theory into the discourse on parable theory; and this dissertation advances the body of work on slavery and resistance to slavery in biblical texts. Furthermore, this dissertation can serve as a resource for African American faith communities to unlearn the allegorical interpretation of biblical parables and to reappropriate scripture as a means to resist modem structures of oppression.
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机译:在这篇论文中,我探索了非裔美国女权小说家Octavia E. Butler(1947-2006)的作品,并展示了她的小说《播种者的寓言》,《天才与亲戚的寓言》以及她对寓言的理解如何使世界视她为圣经寓言理论的主要声音,思想家和创新者。此外,本论文还开发了一种基于巴特勒的著作来阅读耶稣的寓言的理论,并将其在女性主义的社会历史背景下运用于大晚餐的卢坎寓言中(路加福音14:15-24),从而创造了一个简短的叙事背景阅读对奴役的抵抗。通过将经过修改的比喻理论引入比喻理论的论述中,进一步推进了对明锐巴特勒的学术研究。因此,本论文推进了圣经文本中有关奴隶制和抵抗奴隶制的工作。此外,这篇论文可以作为非裔美国人信仰团体了解圣经寓言寓言的寓意和重新使用圣经作为抵制现代压迫结构的手段的一种资源。
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