基本説明
With a focus on the history of disciplines, as well as on lingering political, theological, and cultural effects this book turns to the literary imagination as the site of a fragile and tenuous alternative, the promise of something like a "Semitic perspective."
Full Description
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."
Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface: Democracy in America iii @toc1:Part I Semites @toc2:1 The Semitic Hypothesis (Religion's Last Word) 0 2 Secularism 00 @toc1:Part II Literature @toc2:3 Literary History and Hebrew Modernity 000 4 'Eber va-'Arab (The Arab Literature of the Jews) 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
