Rewriting the Word(English, Hardcover, Brown Amy B.)

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Rewriting the Word(English, Hardcover, Brown Amy B.) is written by Brown Amy B. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313308659 (ISBN 10) and 9780313308659 (ISBN 13).

Women writers have often felt alienated from both the Bible and the canonical literary tradition that has been built on its foundation. Yet contemporary American women writers seem to be as haunted by the Bible as their nineteenth-century predecessors. This study of feminist biblical revision argues that women writers' contentious dialogues with the Bible ultimately reconstruct the writers' own basis of authority. The author traces the evolution of this phenomenon from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and analyzes biblical revision in works by Emily Dickinson, H.D., Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison.