Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt Desert as Borderland /

• Main Author: Mena, Peter Anthony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Religion and Spatial Studies
• Subjects: Bible-Theology.; Literature .; Middle East-History.; Middle Eastern literature.; Biblical Studies.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; History of the Middle East.; Middle Eastern Literature.

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 Eg...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Mapping the Desert, Mapping Identity in Late Antiquity
• 2. Anzaldúa, Space Theorist: Mapping Ancient Hagiographies
• 3. Tierra Natal: Athanasius's Desert as Mestiza Homeland
• 4. Saints, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Going Wild in the Desert
• 5. The Holy Harlotry of Mestizaje
• 6. Conclusion: The Functions of the Frontera in the Late Ancient Imagination. .