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The Politics of Purim - Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (Paperback)
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The Politics of Purim - Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (Paperback)
Series: Scriptural Traces
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This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to
human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of
the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo
Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the
purimshpil (Purim's own dramatic genre), illuminated Esther
scrolls, as well as artworks by Botticelli, Millais and Jan Steen.
The complex and astute interrogation of political life in such
festival and artworks is analysed through theories of sovereignty,
law, precarity and hospitality by key political thinkers such as
Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler,
Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere. Carruthers considers
different motifs of boundary conservation and dissolution, as a
means of contemplating the political implications of Purim and the
Esther story for diaspora politics. How is sovereignty aspired to
and attained by marginalized and threatened communities? How can
one respond to the ethical call of hospitality to relax sovereign
boundaries whilst protecting and celebrating that which is
exceptional? The practice of giving gifts, mishloach manos, offers
a model of hospitality that together with Purim's profane impulse
is epitomized in the final chapter's discussion of a 2018 Brooklyn
purimshpil, that offers a riotous ridiculing of white supremacist
rhetoric, norms of domination, capitalist inequalities, modern
slavery and ablest identities and assumptions.
General
Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Scriptural Traces |
Release date: |
October 2021 |
Authors: |
Jo Carruthers
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-70231-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-567-70231-6 |
Barcode: |
9780567702319 |
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