7/7/2023 0 Comments Dinah in the red tent![]() ![]() The revisiting of Dinah’s story is in line with feminist ideology that calls for equality between men and women, and that they are treated equally (as inequality is evident in religious texts due to the patriarchal nature of the culture that produced them). ![]() The Red Tent falls into a category of literature that was influenced by second wave US feminism which called for the production of woman-centred texts and, amongst other things, encouraged a revisiting and reimagining of archaic patriarchal texts that marginalised the lives and experiences of women. ![]() The novel explores the lives and traditions of ancient, pre-biblical womanhood in the Middle East illustrated through Dinah’s four mothers, the women in her tribe and the homosocial (between people of the same sex) bonds formed between women. Dinah narrates the novel which contrasts with that fact that she does not speak in Genesis. It is loosely based on the story of Dinah, the only daughter of Leah and Jacob, sister to Joseph, in Genesis. The Red Tent (1997) by American author, Anita Diamant, is one such reimagining. ![]() Matrilineal knowledge production has a long-established history of being suppressed by traditionally androcentric patriarchal religious and historical texts. ![]()
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