RT Article
T1 Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialism’s ‘Pleasure’
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 29
IS 1
SP 25
OP 48
A1 Lee, Bernon
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1749484390
AB 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.
K1 Edward Said
K1 Grace Aguilar
K1 Sotah
K1 Numbers 5:11–31
K1 nineteenth-century biblical interpretation
K1 Orientalism
DO 10.1163/15685152-00284P23