EAN: 9783030173272

PLACE AND IDENTITY IN THE LIVES OF ANTONY PAUL ...

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 Anzaldúa'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
Anzaldúan 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.
Anzaldúa's theories help guide a reading especially attuned to the important relationship
between space and subjectivity.

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