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Semites: Race, Religion, Literature

By Gil Anidjar

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9781503626744
DOI
10.1515/9781503626744
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1081248 bytes)
Pages
160\156
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:38:03

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."

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