2. Reading with Yin Yang Eyes: Negotiating the Ideological Dilemma of a Chinese American Biblical Hermeneutics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Medi(t)ations on and for a Conversation 1
5. 2. Reading with Yin Yang Eyes: Negotiating the Ideological Dilemma of a Chinese American Biblical Hermeneutics 18
6. 3. Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John’s Community of “Upward” Mobility 34
7. 4. Overlapping (His)Stories: Reading Acts in Chinese America 57
8. 5. Redressing Bodies in Corinth: Racial/Ethnic Politics and Religious Difference in the Context of Empire 75
9. 6. Melancholia in Diaspora: Reading Paul’s Psycho-Political Operatives in 1 Corinthians 98
10. 7. Immigrants and Intertexts: Biblical In(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee 115
11. 8. Telling Times in (Asian) America: Extraordinary Poetics, Everyday Politics, and Endless Paradoxes 134
12. Notes 147
13. Works Cited 207
14. Index 251