Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Cultural Memory in the

Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (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."
Country USA
Brand Brand: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2007-10-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780804756952

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2007-10-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780804756952

Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Cultural Memory in the Present)