Introducing ordinary African readers' hermeneutics: a case study of the Agĩkũyũ encounter with the Bible
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Introducing Ordinary African
Readers Hermeneutics
A Case Study of the Agikuyu Encounter
with the Bible
PETER LANG
Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
CHAPTER I
Introduction i
I I Overall Primary Aim and Secondary Aim I
izA Case Method Approach 3
1 3 Motivation for this Study 4
1 4 Presumptions 6
1 5 Importance of this Study 8
1 6 Chapter Outline 9
CHAPTER Z
Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Theory 11
z i Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa 11
z z Re-Defining Hermeneutics 16
1 3 Biblical Historical Criticism and Postcolonial Contexts 18
z 4 Methodology 10
2 5 Limitations of a Multi-disciplinary Approach 32
CHAPTER 3
Bible and Colonial Identities: Colonial Construct ions,
Representations and Marginality 33
3 1 Introduction 33
3 2 Colonial Principles of Legitimation 38
3 3 Conclusion 67
CHAPTER 4
Location of Culture in the Colonial Hermeneutics:
Ambivalence, Mimicry, and Hybridity 71
4 1 Introduction 7Z
4 Z The Bible and Literacy: Colonial Ambivalence and Anxieties 77
4 3 Cultural Doubt and Liminal Space 88
4 4 Mimicry and Double Vision: Colonial Hermeneutics and
Orthodoxy 93
4 5 Hybridity and the Aesthetics 106
4 6 Conclusion nz
CHAPTER 5
Bible Translation and the Discourse of Colonalism:
The Glkuyu Bible 115
5 1 Introduction 11$
5ZA Summary of the Evolution of the Gikuyu Bible izo
5 3 The Colonial Situation and Issues of Translation 130
5 4 Translation as an In-between Space: Creolisation 149
5 5 Conclusion 161
CHAPTER 6
The Role of Common Sense Hermeneutics:
The Translated Texts and the Types of Reading 165
6 1 Introduction 165
6 1 Common Sense Hermeneutics 166
6 3 Reading Strategies 171
6 4 Conclusion Z09
CHAPTER 7
Resistance as a Discursive Practice 111
7 1 Introduction zu
7 1 Subversive Readings ziz
7 3 Language as a figural ploy Z31
7 5 Potential Hermeneutical Optic 235
7 6 Conclusion Z40
CHAPTER 8
The Discourse of Resistance and the Hidden Transcript:
The Revival Option 243
8 1 Introduction Z43
8 2 Detention and Villaginisation 2 46
8 3 Role of the Bible 255
8 4 The Revival Movement and the Colonial Churches 269
8 5 Post-Mau-Mau/Post-Mission Hermeneutics 284
8 6 Conclusion 287
CHAPTER9
Towards an Ord ina ry African Readers Hermeneut ics 289
9 1 Introduction 289
9 2 The Limitations of Pre-Critical Common Sense
Hermeneutics 290
9 3 Envisioning New Horizon: The Scholarly and the
Ordinary Reader 294
9 4 The Postcolonial Theory and the Ordinary Reader 303
CHAPTER 10
General Conclusion 327
Appendix I 331
Appendix II 333
Bibliography 335
Index 365
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