Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt - Desert as Borderland (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies-the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the Hermit, and the Life of Mary of Egypt-in conjunction with Gloria Anzaldua's ideas about the US/Mexican borderlands/la frontera, Mena shows readers how descriptions of the desert in these texts are replete with spaces and inhabitants that render the desert a borderland or frontier space in Anzalduan terms. As a borderland space, the desert functions as a device for the creation of an emerging identity in late antiquity-the desert ascetic. Simultaneously, the space of the desert is created through the image of the saint. Literary critical, religious studies, and historical methodologies converge in this work in order to illuminate a heuristic tool for interpreting the desert in late antiquity and its importance for the development of desert asceticism. Anzaldua's theories help guide a reading especially attuned to the important relationship between space and subjectivity.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Religion and Spatial Studies
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Peter Anthony Mena
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	123
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-017327-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-017327-5
Barcode:	9783030173272

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