TY - JOUR
T1 - Stor[y]ing Deuteronomy 22
T2 - 13-19 in missionary positions
AU - Havea, Jione
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = The Bible and Critical Theory. ISSNs: 1832-3391;
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The success of the colonising missionary encounter in the South Pacific Islands was due in part to missionaries trespassing island-spaces, and yoking island-natives to transgress their own people and cultures in the name of Christianity. As the tide turns, this paper invites reading biblical texts, product of the missionary encounter, from the mission field on behalf of the culturally-crossed-and-in-some-cases-culturally-raped-natives. The paper faces the virgin in Deuteronomy 22:13'19 as a figure for pre-missionary encountered natives, and suggests that preoccupation with virginity disguises, among other things, lost of virility. In other words, a husband (read: missionary) 'can't get it up' (read: convert) so he claims that his wife (read: natives) was not a virgin.
AB - The success of the colonising missionary encounter in the South Pacific Islands was due in part to missionaries trespassing island-spaces, and yoking island-natives to transgress their own people and cultures in the name of Christianity. As the tide turns, this paper invites reading biblical texts, product of the missionary encounter, from the mission field on behalf of the culturally-crossed-and-in-some-cases-culturally-raped-natives. The paper faces the virgin in Deuteronomy 22:13'19 as a figure for pre-missionary encountered natives, and suggests that preoccupation with virginity disguises, among other things, lost of virility. In other words, a husband (read: missionary) 'can't get it up' (read: convert) so he claims that his wife (read: natives) was not a virgin.
KW - Open access version available
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - The Bible and Critical Theory
JF - The Bible and Critical Theory
SN - 1832-3391
IS - 2
ER -