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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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Anno: 2021, Volume: 29, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 25-48 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Bibel. Numeri 5,11-31
/ Aguilar, Grace 1816-1847
/ Said, Edward W. 1935-2003
/ Storia 1800-1900
/ Letteratura
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | CD Cristianesimo; cultura HB Antico Testamento |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Edward Said
B nineteenth-century biblical interpretation B Sotah B Grace Aguilar B Orientalism B Numbers 5:11–31 |
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| Riepilogo: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00284P23 |
