The Screaming Apocalypse: Revelation, Gender, and the Coloniality of Knowledge

This short article considers the coloniality of Revelation, and scholarship about Revelation, through feminist and decolonial lenses, centering the sonic and epistemic reverberations of (post)apocalyptic discourse in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María. Engaging with the work of feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial scholars, the essay expands upon decolonial feminist ethicist Melissa Pagán’s ‘hermeneutics of el grito ’ as a critical method for reading Revelation’s screams and silences. It calls for a reimagining of apocalyptic interpretation grounded in the lived realities of environmental catastrophe and persistence in the face of coloniality.