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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Figueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Collection:SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.