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Semites : Race, Religion, Literature /
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&...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Cultural Memory in the Present
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Democracy in America
- Part I. Semites
- 1. The Semitic Hypothesis (Religion's Last Word)
- 2. Secularism
- Part II. Literature
- 3. Literary History and Hebrew Modernity
- 4. 'Eber va-'Arab (The Arab Literature of the Jews)
- Notes
- Cultural Memory in the Present