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Semites: Race, Religion, Literature

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gil AnidjarSeries:Cultural Memory in the PresentPublish date:2007-10-08Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804756952ISBN-10:804756953UPC:9780804756952Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.55 x 5.62 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC2QAJNB7B

This collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of "Semites." Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange unity of Jew and Arab under one term, "Semite" (the opposing term was "Aryan"), and the circumstances that brought about its disappearance constitute the subject of this volume. With a focus on the history of disciplines (including religious studies and Jewish studies), as well as on lingering political, theological, and cultural effects (secularism, anti-Semitism, Israel/Palestine), Semites: Race, Religion, and Literature turns to the literary imagination as the site of a fragile and tenuous alternative, the promise of something like a "Semitic perspective."

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804756952ISBN-10:804756953UPC:9780804756952Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.55 x 5.62 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC2QAJNB7B
Gil Anidjar is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of "Our Place in Al-Andalus" Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Stanford, 2002) and the editor of Jacques Derrida's Acts of Religion (2002).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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