www.miekebal.org The personal website of Mieke Bal
Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2008
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Using the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, in which Joseph spurns the advances of his master’s wife, who then falsely accuses him of attempted rape, Mieke Bal juxtaposes retellings of the text —in the Qur’an, the false art of Rembrandt, and the prose of Thomas Mann— to ask how these different versions complicate her own and others’ experience of the story, and how the different truths of these texts in their respective traditions illuminate the process of canonization.
