This dissertation investigates the exclusion of Moses from the Promised Land in Numbers and Deuteronomy. Why are there different reasons given for his exclusion in the two books? Can they be explained by the complex redactions of Deuteronomy? There are four different answers to the question of Moses’ exclusion. According to Deut 1-3, divine anger is directed at Moses because he is the leader of the first exodus generation on whom the wrath of God is visited. Moses is excluded because he should bear the same punishment as the first generation of Israelites who left Egypt. Another reason is given in Deut 4, a mixture of late layers in the Deuteronomistic History. Accordingly, Moses’ exclusion is compared to the destruction and scattering of the future generations of the Israelites who provoked God to anger. The “anger-punishment pattern” of Moses’ exclusion, which is a theme of divine anger in the Deuteronomistic History, is used to confess the sin of the Israelites. Thirdly, in the post-Priestly passages in Numbers and Deuteronomy, Moses is ordered to die because of the sin of failing to sanctify YHWH. The exclusion of Moses is a natural consequence of his death outside the Promised Land. Finally, Deut 31 and 34 imply that Moses has reached the limit of life span which was set by YHWH.

Adam, the father of all men initiated a fall from innocence; the story of postlapsarian humanity discloses an omnipresent attempt to return to the Garden, the state of innocence. This journey back to consciously achieved innocence is revealed in the story of Israel's quest for the Promised Land, a land covenanted to this people by YHWH. To live in a holy land (sacred space), Israel must put off all attachments to mortal aims, she must sacrifice the profane, horizontal world and enter the sacralized, vertical sphere to become hale, healthy, holy, and whole: wholeness accompanies this return to the center.The Old Testament is the story of a people who fail to come to the promised wholeness. Although Israel never realized this potential holiness, her movement from Egypt through the Wilderness to Canaan is typology for everyman's journey to a new consciousness: God separated Israel from the profane world opening the door to cleansed perception, greater unity and conscious innocence. In keeping his covenant they would find the sacred and return to the center, thus recreating the primordial pattern: moving from chaos to order--the eternal return.

This thesis attempts to read ¡§identity switch¡¨ in Gish Jen¡¦s Mona in the Promised Land as an exploration to the Asian American experience veiled by the multiculturalist ethnic commensurability. The research is divided into three chapters: ¡§Sleeping Racist Lover,¡¨ ¡§There is no World without Race and Class Walls¡¨ and ¡§The Figments of the Cosmopolitan America.¡¨ In Chapter One, I try to read the protagonist Mona Chang as the American born kid with no ethnic consciousness resulting in the funny and naive identity switch as a means to escape her innate cultural perplexity. In Chapter Two, the hindrances of this switch are disclosed during the interethnic interactions as to argue the possible setbacks of identity switch and the Asian American¡¦s being alienated from hegemonic black-white relation. In the final chapter, two ethnic alliances set upon the ethnic equality as to resist to the white mainstream oppression are analysed in attempt to argue that the multiculturalist embrace of differences of the minorities eventually falls into a white-black power relation, thereby alienating and silencing Asian Americans. Lastly, I argue that the seemingly funny identity switch on a cosmopolitan intent to de-ethnicise America ultimately discloses the Asian Americans¡¦ dislocation in the land.

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Esta Dissertação, intitulada Narrativa da Espera no Romance Angolano Contemporâneo: Notas às alegóricas Noites de Vigília de Boaventura Cardoso, propõe a leitura de Noites de vigília (2012), do angolano Boaventura Cardoso. Essa obra, voltada para a revisitação do passado histórico-político angolano, sob o signo da alegoria lançada no universo teorizador por Walter Benjamin, irrompe com a história oficial ao pôr em questionamento o projeto da Terra Prometida, cujo marcador é a espera ancorada no desejo de fundação de uma associação das personagens- protagonistas, a saber: Quinito, do MPLA, e Saiundo, da UNITA. Por conseguinte, através do comparativismo literário, procuramos analisar como a recriação do sociopolítico angolano, em Noites de Vigília, indicia a desrepressão da história, visando a consumação do projeto de comunidade imaginada angolana, hasteando-se, desse modo, a bandeira da igualdade social, dando-se voz e vez aos da pereiferia social. Assim, procura-se demonstrar como a ficcionalização do histórico-político angolano denuncia um socius na contramão do apregoado ao longo do movimento anti-colonial, haja vista a proclamação da sociedade pautada na igualdade, liberdades e bemestar coletivo ainda em processo. / This Dissertation, entitled Narrative of Waiting in the Contemporary Angolan Romance: Notes to the allegorical Vigil Nights of Boaventura Cardoso, proposes the reading of Vigil Nights (2012), by Angolan Boaventura Cardoso. This work, aimed at revisiting the Angolan historical-political past, under the sign of the allegory launched in the theorizing universe by Walter Benjamin, bursts into official history by questioning the Promised Land project whose marker is the \"waiting\" anchored in the desire to found an association of the main characters, namely: Quinito, MPLA, and Saiundo, UNITA. Therefore, through literary comparativeism, we seek to analyze how the re-creation of the Angolan sociopolitical, in Nights of Vigil, indicates the derepression of history, aiming at the consummation of the Angolan imagined community project, thereby hovering the banner of social equality , giving voice and time to those of the social pereiferia. Thus, we try to demonstrate how the fictionalization of the Angolan historical-political denounces a socius against the one proclaimed throughout the anti-colonial movement, given the proclamation of a society based on equality, liberties and collective well-being still in process.

Esta Dissertação, intitulada Narrativa da Espera no Romance Angolano Contemporâneo: Notas às alegóricas Noites de Vigília de Boaventura Cardoso, propõe a leitura de Noites de vigília (2012), do angolano Boaventura Cardoso. Essa obra, voltada para a revisitação do passado histórico-político angolano, sob o signo da alegoria lançada no universo teorizador por Walter Benjamin, irrompe com a história oficial ao pôr em questionamento o projeto da Terra Prometida, cujo marcador é a espera ancorada no desejo de fundação de uma associação das personagens- protagonistas, a saber: Quinito, do MPLA, e Saiundo, da UNITA. Por conseguinte, através do comparativismo literário, procuramos analisar como a recriação do sociopolítico angolano, em Noites de Vigília, indicia a desrepressão da história, visando a consumação do projeto de comunidade imaginada angolana, hasteando-se, desse modo, a bandeira da igualdade social, dando-se voz e vez aos da pereiferia social. Assim, procura-se demonstrar como a ficcionalização do histórico-político angolano denuncia um socius na contramão do apregoado ao longo do movimento anti-colonial, haja vista a proclamação da sociedade pautada na igualdade, liberdades e bemestar coletivo ainda em processo. / This Dissertation, entitled Narrative of Waiting in the Contemporary Angolan Romance: Notes to the allegorical Vigil Nights of Boaventura Cardoso, proposes the reading of Vigil Nights (2012), by Angolan Boaventura Cardoso. This work, aimed at revisiting the Angolan historical-political past, under the sign of the allegory launched in the theorizing universe by Walter Benjamin, bursts into official history by questioning the Promised Land project whose marker is the \"waiting\" anchored in the desire to found an association of the main characters, namely: Quinito, MPLA, and Saiundo, UNITA. Therefore, through literary comparativeism, we seek to analyze how the re-creation of the Angolan sociopolitical, in Nights of Vigil, indicates the derepression of history, aiming at the consummation of the Angolan imagined community project, thereby hovering the banner of social equality , giving voice and time to those of the social pereiferia. Thus, we try to demonstrate how the fictionalization of the Angolan historical-political denounces a socius against the one proclaimed throughout the anti-colonial movement, given the proclamation of a society based on equality, liberties and collective well-being still in process.

Cette thèse s’inscrit au carrefour de la mythocritique, de l’imagologie et des études postcoloniales. Elle a pour ambition d’identifier et d’analyser les images littéraires de la Polynésie du seizième au vingt-et-unième siècles grâce aux mythes bibliques et aux mythes polynésiens qui sont à leurs fondements. L’image la plus connue est celle de l’Éden polynésien qu’ont construit les voyageurs occidentaux et que déconstruisent les auteurs insulaires. Les littératures du Triangle sont en outre habitées par un imaginaire vétérotestamentaire réinterprété mais aussi par les réécritures de mythes traditionnels polynésiens. Se mêlent alors culture biblique d’une région très évangélisée et mise en valeur de la Polynésie pré-contact trop souvent niée ou dépréciée par les missionnaires, colons et écrivains occidentaux. Ainsi, le croisement des disciplines et le recours aux concepts polynésiens ont favorisé l’émergence d’une vision globale du rôle des mythes dans les œuvres littéraires qui participent de la représentation de ce territoire archipélique. / This study comes within the scope of mythocritics, image and postcolonial studies. It seeks to identify and analyse literary images from the sixteenth to twenty-first century Polynesia through biblical and Polynesian myths which are at the basis of these representations. The most famous image is obviously the Polynesian Eden, a cliché constructed by Western travellers and deconstructed by Insular writers. Literatures of the Triangle are also tinged with a reinterpreted Old Testament imaginary and with re-written traditional Polynesian myths. The biblical culture of a deeply evangelised region then mingles with the highlighted representation of pre-contact Polynesia which was so often denied or disparaged by missionaries, settlers and Western writers. Crossing disciplines and using Polynesian concepts have favoured a global vision of how myths (inter)act within literary works that take part in this territory of archipelago’s representation.

[pt] A presente dissertação analisa Dt 31,9-13, reconhecendo as estratégias usadas por YHWH para conduzir o seu povo no conhecimento da verdade e na prática da justiça. O livro da Lei, que foi escrito por Moisés conforme a ordem de YHWH, é um elemento singular. Esse material pedagógico foi entregue aos sacerdotes, filhos de Levi, e aos anciãos. Josué, futuro sucessor de Moisés, é, no contexto, uma figura em destaque. O livro da Lei atesta a aliança estabelecida entre YHWH, o Deus único, e Israel, o povo eleito. Se o primeiro ponto de contato de YHWH e Israel teve como propósito libertá-los e salvá-los da escravidão do Egito; o segundo ponto indica o projeto pedagógico de YHWH: deseja que Israel seja um povo livre e fiel, e se torne um paradigma para as demais nações, ou seja, quer que o seu plano salvífico se estenda à toda humanidade. A terra prometida, dom e herança, após o tempo do deserto será o grande banco de prova. Moisés foi o escolhido para a sublime missão de conduzir o povo. A palavra de ordem é: obediência; que deve se traduzir em amor e fidelidade ao Deus da Aliança. Sendo obediente, o povo alcançará as bênçãos, ao passo que, desobediente, atrairá as maldições: perda da terra e exílio. A abordagem de Dt 31,9-13 foi feita através dos passos do Método Histórico-Crítico. Contudo, a pesquisa pela abordagem sincrônica aplicada no comentário, também procurou compreender, pela lógica do conjunto, a pedagogia de YHWH frente ao povo que elegeu como sua particular propriedade. Uma história com seus altos e baixos, marcada pela fidelidade de YHWH e pelas infidelidades do povo sempre chamado a viver de acordo com a aliança. Bênçãos e maldições marcam essa história que continua válida e sendo escrita na mente e no coração de cada fiel. A preocupação com a formação das futuras gerações é o dado fundamental, a fim de que a obediência da fé seja o caminho de conformação com a vontade salvífica de YHWH. / [en] This dissertation analyzes Deut 31,9-13, recognizing the strategies used by YHWH to conduct his people by the knowledge of truth and the practice of justice. The Book of the King, that was written by Moses as it was ordered by YHWH, is a singular element. This pedagogic material was delivered to the Priests, Levi s sons and to the ancients. Josue, Moses s future successor, is, in this context, a highlighted figure. The book of the law attests the alliance established between YHWH, the one and only God, and Israel, the elected people. If the first point for the contact between YHWH and Israel had the purpose of freeing and saving them from the slavery of Egpty; The second point indicates the pedagogic project of YHWH: wishes israel s people to be free and faithful, and become a paradigm for other nations, that is, he wants his saving plan to extend to all humanity. The promised land, gift and heritage, after the time of the desert there will be the great trial. Moses was chosen for the sublime mission of conducting the people. The word of order is: obedience; that must translate into love and fidelity to the alliance s God. By being obedient, his people will reach their blessings, otherwise, by being disobedient, they will attract curses, lose their lands and will be exiled. The approach of the Dt 31,9-13 was done following the Historical and critical method, however, the research through the synchronic approach applied in the commentary, also sought to understand, through the logic, the pedagogy of YHWH in front of the people that he elected as private property. A history with its highs and lows, marked by the fidelity of YHWH and infidelities of his people always called to live according to the alliance. Blessings and curses mark this history that keeps going and being written in the mind and heart of each believer. The concern with the development of the future generations is the fundamental fact, in order for the obedience of the faith to be the way of conformation with the saving will of YHWH.

This dissertation attempts a Bakhtinian analysis of the polyphonic dialogue between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Karel Schoeman's Na die Geliefde Land and Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land. Specific Bakthinian concepts are employed to determine whether the films are "apt" adaptations of the literary texts; how the stylistically hybrid texts engage in conversation with different movements, genres and trends; how the polyphonic conversations between different texts and discourses, such as literature and film, or colonialism and postcolonialism, can provide insight into the variety of discourses, textual and ideological, of a postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa; and how identity crises experienced by key characters can be explained using the notions of hybridity, "The Marginal Man" and liminality. All four texts have key characters that experience identity crises that spring from cultural hybridity; their cultural hybridity has the potential to either render them marginally stagnant or lead them to liminally active participation within their imagined communities. This dissertation argues that even though there are major differences between the films and the literary texts they are based upon, they are relevant to a specific target audience and therefore enrich the ur-texts. Salient characteristics of realism, symbolism, impressionism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the apocalyptic dialogise one another within the four texts, thereby liberating the texts from one authorial reading. The dialogue between the discourses of literature and film supplement an understanding of the dialogue between war, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism and the Will to Power. / Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.