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T&T Clark The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (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 Rancière. 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. Review This is a brilliant and refreshing look at an ancient, well-worn text and its reception. The writing is lucid, the arguments subtle and complex without being cluttered with literary jargon. The indices are thorough―including an index of primary references, of authors, and of subjects ... I delighted in reading the book. --The Bible and Critical Theory[T]he book offers fascinating insights on how Purim and its customs embody a minority’s profound reflections on its own political status, identity and (in)security. --Journal for the Study of the Old Testament About the Author Jo Carruthers is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK.

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Brand: T&T Clark
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0567691861
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Bible > Criticism & Interpretation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 February 2020
Listed Since: 22 August 2019

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