Curse of Ham Curse of Ham The Curse of Ham is the curse upon Canaan, Ham's son, that was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The curse occurs in the Book of Genesis and concerns Noah's drunkenness and the accompanying shameful act perpetrated by his son Ham, the father of Canaan (). The controversies raised by this story regarding the nature of Ham's transgression, and the question of why Noah cursed Canaan when Ham had sinned, have been debated for over 2,000 years. The story's original purpose may have been to justify the subjection of the Canaanite people to the Israelites, but in
The Passion According to G.H. a mode to express ideas that are beyond and above the human. Thus Lispector implies that G.H.'s perspective in the novel is not limited to her but is representative of the human species and its breakdown. G.H.'s radical immanence in the novel rejects Mary's transcendence in the Bible and consequently alludes to the condition of immanence for not only humans but for all living things. The Passion According to G.H. The Passion According to G.H. ("A paixão segundo G.H.") is a mystical novel by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The work takes the form of a monologue by