In this original interpretation of the story of Esther, Kenneth
Craig offers to interpreters a new context for reading this often
undervalued and misunderstood story. According to Craig, this story
has been undervalued and misunderstood because its true genre, the
literary carnivalesque, has not been considered. The defining image
of the literary carnivalesque is the festival itself, whose
atmosphere sets the tone, shapes the plot, and defines the images
of the story. An integral aspect of this genre is the pairing of
opposites and reversals, culminating in a literature that has its
own peculiar kind of logic, a world of shifts, and "inside outs,"
and "turnabouts." Craig defines the book of Esther as the story of
such reversals: Haman ends up on the gallows that he had built for
Mordecai; and Esther emerges as the hero in this male-dominated
narrative world. This book will shine a new light on the book of
Esther as it offers to readers a new appreciation of the story's
genre as a basis of interpretation.
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