Place And Identity In The Lives Of Antony Paul And Mary Of Egypt

In this book Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographiesthe Life of Antony the Life of Paul the Hermit and the Life of Mary of Egyptin conjunction with Gloria Anzaldas ideas about the USMexican borderlandsla frontera Mena shows readers how descriptions of the desert in these texts are replete with spaces and inhabitants that rend