The goal of this diverse and intriguing volu me is to shape a space of common discourse between Jews and others who share a critical apporach to the politics of cult ure and the cultural politics of difference. '
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Addresses the relation of Jewish cultural studies to cultural studies as a whole. Jonathan Boyarin is the author of "Storm from Paradise" (Minnesota, 1993) and the editor of "Remapping Memory" (Minnesota, 1994).
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Introduction: So what's new? Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin; Surfacing: thoughts on memory and the ethnographer's self, Benjamin Orlove; Jewish icons: envisioning the self in images of the other, Jack Kugelmass; Situating history and difference: the performance of the term holocaust in public discourse, Vivian M. Patraka; Identities on display: Jewishness and the representational politics of the museum, Johannes von Moltke; Whiteface performances: "race", gender, and Jewish bodies, Ann Pellegrini; Jazz-Jews, jive, and gender: the ethnic politics of jazz argot, Marian Damon; Secret temples, Daniel Itzkovitz; The aromatics of Jewish differences, or Benjamin's allegory of aura, Jay Geller; Beyond Deleuze and Guattari: Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in the age of privileged difference, Chana Kronfeld; Lawless attachments, one-night stands: the sexual politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish language war, Naomi Seidman; Masada or Yavneh? gender and the arts of Jewish resistance, Daniel Boyarin; Exploding identities: notes on ethnicity and literary history, Ammiel Alcalay; the holy foreskin: or, money relics and Judeo-Christianity, Marc Shell; On the (under) cutting edge: does Jewish memory need sharpening? Gil Anidjar.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780816627516
Publisert
2008-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Minnesota Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
392