Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialism’s ‘Pleasure’

Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11–31) against Edward Said’s putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism ) is the interest of this article. Aguilar’s interpr...

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主要作者: Lee, Bernon (Author)
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語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: 2021
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, 卷: 29, 發布: 1, Pages: 25-48
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bibel. Numeri 5,11-31 / Aguilar, Grace 1816-1847 / Said, Edward W. 1935-2003 / 歷史 1800-1900 / 文學
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Edward Said
B nineteenth-century biblical interpretation
B Sotah
B Grace Aguilar
B Orientalism
B Numbers 5:11–31
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總結:Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11–31) against Edward Said’s putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism ) is the interest of this article. Aguilar’s interpretation fits, largely, Said’s paradigm of sclerosed racial differences, cultural interpenetration within contested spaces, and a recovery of a Western perspective in the last. But her conformity to the pattern in the work is troubled by her commitment to a marginal Anglo-Jewish apologetic grounded in the religious ruminations of an ancient Eastern people and literature. Charting a course for her brand of Jewish piety to the center of Victorian religious culture with its moorings in Euro-supremacy, Aguilar remains tethered to her Near Eastern patrimony. She is, in the end, a reluctant imperialist.
ISSN:1568-5152
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00284P23