Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Shibboleth by Marc Redfield Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities, and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliche. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility-to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. The various phenomena we sum up as neoliberalism and globalization are unimaginable in the absence of shibboleth-technologies.In the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celans subtle yet fierce reorientation of shibboleth merits scrupulous reading. This book interprets the episode in Judges together with Celans poems and Jacques Derridas reading of them, as well as passages from William Faulkners Absalom, Absalom! and Doris Salcedos 2007 installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern. Redfield pursues the track of shibboleth: a word to which no language can properly lay claim-a word that is both less and more than a word, that signifies both the epitome and the ruin of border control technology, and that thus, despite its violent role in the Biblical story, offers a locus of poetico-political affirmation. Author Biography Marc Redfield is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German at Brown University. His most recent books are The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America (Fordham University Press, 2016). Table of Contents 1 Shibboleth: Inheritance | 1 2 : Judges | 133 S(h)ibboleth: Sovereign Violence and the Remainder | 194 Schibboleth: Derrida | 365 Schibboleth: Celan | 506 "S(ch)ibboleth": Apostrophe | 697 S(c)hibboleth: Babel | 868 Shibboleth: Salcedo | 100Acknowledgments | 107Notes | 109Index | 155 Review Marc Redfield. . . takes up the relation of life to art in his exquisitely written and probing study, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan. . .-- "Monatshefte"Shibboleth is an important reflection on the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities, and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend. Working in two directions at once, Redfield makes the story of passwords and border patrols told in the biblical book of Judges relevant to our present moment while at the same time using the work of Derrida, Celan, and Salcedo to draw attention to questions of legitimacy, inheritance, mass murder, autoimmunity, and civil strife at the heart of the biblical narrative.---Michael Levine, Rutgers University Review Quote Shibboleth is an important reflection on the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities, and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend. Working in two directions at once, Redfield makes the story of passwords and border patrols told in the biblical book of Judges relevant to our present moment while at the same time using the work of Derrida, Celan, and Salcedo to draw attention to questions of legitimacy, inheritance, mass murder, autoimmunity, and civil strife at the heart of the biblical narrative. ---Michael Levine, Rutgers University Competing Titles Fordham: 1. Redfield, Theory at Yale, 2016 2. Gallagher, Sodomscapes, 2017 3. Levine, A Weak Messianic Power, 2013 Feature By focusing on a single word, shibboleth , the author shows how a range of texts from the Bible to Faulkner, to Celans poetry can speak to such issues as the refugee crisis and the Holocaust. Description for Sales People By focusing on a single word, shibboleth , the author shows how a range of texts from the Bible to Faulkner, to Celans poetry can speak to such issues as the refugee crisis and the Holocaust. Details ISBN0823289060 Author Marc Redfield Pages 176 Publisher Fordham University Press Series Lit Z Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823289060 ISBN-13 9780823289066 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-12-01 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Judges, Derrida, Celan Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title Shibboleth Language English UK Release Date 2020-12-01 AU Release Date 2020-12-01 NZ Release Date 2020-12-01 US Release Date 2020-12-01 Illustrations 3 b/w illustrations Translator Meg Morley Birth 1954 Death 1997 Affiliation Neoma Business Sch, France Position Contributor Qualifications OBE,QC DEWEY 128 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131534397;

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