Title
Drunkenness, Tattoos and Dirty Underwear: Jeremiah as a Modern Masculine Metaphor
Department/School
Theology
Date
2019
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Jeremiah, prophecy, gender, masculinity, colonization
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2019.0002
Abstract
Jeremiah's body functions as a canvas in the book on which loss of patriarchal privilege due to colonization plays out. This article looks at three tropes of masculinity in the book: drunkenness, bodily markings, and gendered prophetic performance to explore how the text uses metaphoric images to represent this rhetorical strategy. The article relates these tropes to gender performances by contemporary white males who also negotiate loss of patriarchal privilege.
Published in
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
COinS
Citation/Other Information
Carvalho, Corinne L. “Drunkenness, Tattoos, and Dirty Underwear: Jeremiah as a Modern Masculine Metaphor.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 80, no. 4 (2019): 597-618. https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2019.0002.