Signifying the Childish Adult of Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible
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Date
2018-09-06
Authors
Omuro, Jonathan
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University of Oregon
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This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, and God’s sexy ass. Using semiotic, religious, and queer theory, I read this text as not only a satirical one, but one that is life affirming to “childish adults”—those individuals who don’t quite fit into the heteropatriachichal standards normalized by religious right ideologies.
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Children's literature, Queer theory, U.S. Christianity