Aryans, Jews, Brahmins : theorizing authority through myths of identity /

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In this cross-cultural study of the Aryan myth in which Brahmin Indian and European races but not Semitic ones share roots, Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Georgia) reads canons and "loose can[n]ons" in this origin myth's construction from Enlightenment and Romantic discourse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Figueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Colección:SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Temas:
1800-1899
Indo-Aryans.
Vedic literature > History and criticism.
Racism > Europe > History > 19th century.
Antisemitism.
Indo-Aryens.
Littérature védique > Histoire et critique.
Racisme > Europe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Antisémitisme.
antisemitism.
HISTORY.
Antisemitism
Civilization
Indo-Aryans
Racism
Vedic literature
Ariërs.
Sanskriet.
Mythen.
Antisemitisme.
India > Civilization.
Inde > Civilisation.
Europe
India
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Authority of an Absent Text
  • Ch. 1 Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse of the Aryan
  • Ch. 2 Romantic Aryans
  • Ch. 3 Nietzsche's Aryan Ubermensch
  • Ch. 4 Loose Can[n]ons
  • pt. II Who Speaks for the Subaltern?
  • Ch. 5 Rammohan Roy
  • Ch. 6 Text-based Identity: Dayanand Saraswati's Reconstruction of the Aryan Self
  • Ch. 7 Aryan Identity and National Self-Esteem
  • Ch. 8 Anti-Myth.

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