Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan

(Part of the Lit Z Series)

by Marc Redfield

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Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities.

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823289079

ISBN13:9780823289073

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.43 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality

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