Comfort the Waste Places, Defend the Violated Earth : An Ecofeminist Reading of Isaiah 51:1-52:6 and Tracy Chapman's Song "The Rape of the World"

This article compares the personification of Zion in Isaiah 51:1–52:6 as a mother and daughter with Tracy Chapman’s 1995 song “The Rape of the World”, where the earth is personified as a mother. These works share the power of metaphor in prophecy, poetry, and song to provoke political and social...

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Main Author: Sawyer, Angela Sue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karl Franzens Universität Graz 2020-06-01
Series:Journal for Religion, Film and Media
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Online Access:https://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/titleinfo/5544322

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