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Aryans, Jews, Brahmins : theorizing authority through myths of identity /
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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.