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A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and Miriam

Part of the Postcolonialism and Religions Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137543929

ISBN: 978-1-349-55261-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 28, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 1 –5

[The first time I read the story of baby Moses abandoned among the reeds next to a huge river in Egypt, I was a child growing up in the modern, urban city state of Singapore. At first glance, therefore, it would seem that he and I are as different as chalk and cheese, separated by a wide expanse...
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Chapter 2Confessions of a Chinese-but-Not-Chinese Adoptee

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 7 –36

[In the Introduction, I suggested that it is not only we, as readers, who determine the interpretation of a story; the text and its characters also play a part by extending its influence over us. Often it is because as flesh-and-blood readers, we empathize with aspects of a certain character...
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Chapter 3A Strangely Familiar Reading Strategy

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 37 –64

[My personal life story described in chapter 1 gives an insight as to the reason that my particular hermeneutic has two distinct aspects to it. This chapter addresses the first—that of an empathic reading strategy. The aim here is twofold: one, to generate an appropriate and rigorous definition...
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Chapter 4An Upside-Down or Right-Side Up View of the World?

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 65 –94

[Postcolonial criticism is a “reading posture,” an interpretive perspective or conceptual attitude rather than a formal methodology, states biblical postcolonial theorist R. S. Sugirtharajah.1 On a practical level, it means that the interpreter appropriates postcolonial concepts and insights to...
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Chapter 5Adapting Bal’s Focalization Methodology

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 95 –108

[This chapter will set out Mieke Bal’s theory of focalization, which provides the critical underpinnings for my particular hermeneutic.1 There are a number of advantages in grounding my reading in Bal’s critical theory: First, it helps demonstrate that the work is rigorously critical since...
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Chapter 6Analyzing the Power (Im)Balance in Exodus 2

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 109 –147

[In chapter 4, I explained that I have retained Bal’s focalizer and the focalized, external focalizer, character-focalizer and perceptible versus nonperceptible concepts. However, I have significantly simplified her “embedded focalization” to become my hierarchical focalization within...
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Chapter 7Encountering and Reimaging Moses and Miriam

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 149 –199

[There are two different levels of understanding that a reader can achieve when reading a biblical text, observes Danna Nolan Fewell and David Gunn. The first is derived “from looking at the text ‘from the outside in,’” but a second kind of understanding only occurs when the reader “enters” the...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Song, Angeline M. G.

Pages: 201 –204

[I began this project with a literary concern, contemplating the role that empathy plays in the reading process and how it could be used in interpreting Hebrew biblical narratives. Tracing the conceptual history and usage of the term in chapter 2, I discovered that “empathy” is a complex and...

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