RT Article
T1 Toward Feeling Fragments: Melancholic Migrants and Other Affect Aliens in the Philippian and Corinthian Assemblies
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 30
IS 5
SP 600
OP 623
A1 Marchal, Joseph A. 1974-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822733235
AB Grief and trauma mark both the ancient past and the present, while melancholia reflects the possibilities for holding on in both contexts. In order to vary and multiply our approaches to people and places touched by loss, biblical scholars could get a different feel for the potentials of melancholia as examined in affect, queer, and critical race theories. While Pauline letters often aim to convert grief away from pain and trauma, the pre-Pauline materials within them (specifically, the slogans in 1 Corinthians and the Christ-hymn in Philippians) index a communal melancholia, refusals to “get over it” or relinquish the other and/as lost object(s). Though the other affect aliens in the assembly communities are moving within colonized contexts shaped by layered sediments of insidious trauma, their slogans and hymns assemble contingent and temporary fragments, modes of negotiating difficult conditions, of loss and death, enslavement and exploitation, unwanted touch and ongoing suffering – without forgetting.
K1 Slogans
K1 Paul’s letters
K1 Mourning
K1 Melancholia
K1 Christ-hymn
K1 affect aliens
DO 10.1163/15685152-03050004