Semites

Race, Religion, Literature

By:

Gil Anidjar

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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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."

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

October 8th, 2007

Author

Gil Anidjar

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

160

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

3564x5499x330

ISBN-13

9780804756952

Product ID

2222261

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