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Title: | Hagiographies of Ethiopian Female Saints: With Special Reference to 'Gadla Krestos Samra' and 'Gadla Feqerta Krestos' |
Author: | Mecca, Selamawit |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Cultural Studies |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 153-167 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | hagiography gender inequality women saints Women's Issues Religion and Witchcraft History and Exploration Historical/Biographical |
About persons: | Krestos Sämra (15e E.) Feqertä Krestos |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696810601104692 |
Abstract: | The author analyses two Ethiopic hagiographies with female saints as their subjects, showing how women saints are portrayed in the hagiographies. The main hagiographies of female saints used for this discussion are 'Gädlä Krestos Sämra' and 'Gädlä Feqertä Krestos'. Both saints lived in the 15th century. The discussion of these texts, which are translations into Amharic from Ge'ez, is informed by the feminist literary approach to retrieve the representation of female voices from hagiographic literature, so heavily dominated by male authority and patriarchal values. The author concludes that the fact that the stories are woven around women does not make them the heroines. That role is always taken by men or by supernatural powers. Therefore it is clear that, although the women may be central to the action, they have a subordinate role in the texts. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |