Papers by Karalina Matskevich
Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis, 2016
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This study examines the construction of gendered and national identities in a selection of narrat... more This study examines the construction of gendered and national identities in a selection of narratives in the book of Genesis. It distinguishes two processes of signification that run alongside each other, namely, the construction of the androcentric Subject that starts in the narrative of Genesis 2-3, and the emergence, in the stories of the patriarchs, of the ethnocentric Subject of Israel. In both cases, unified subjectivity is perceived in relation to and over against the Other, represented respectively as female and foreign identity. The study adopts a multidisciplinary approach, using the tools of semiotic analysis, narratology and psychoanalysis to uncover the presence and function of alterity, suppressed by the dominant discourse. The study highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the very difference it relies on for its signification. In the garden narrative (Genesis 2-3), this contradiction is reflected i...
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Jim Dingley (ed.), Between the Lands. From Poland to Russia via Belarus and Ukraine: a journey through cinema, history, literature, memory and music , 2018
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K. Vermeulen and E. Hayes (eds.), Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis (Eisebrauns, 2016), 2016
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I. Dubianetskaya, A. McMillin, H. Sahanovic (ed.), Your Sun Shall Never Set Again, and Your Moon Shall Wane No More, 2009
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P. Hardwick and D. Kennedy (eds.), The Survival of Myth: Innovation, Singularity and Alterity (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 5-30., 2010
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Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2019
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