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Moses and Multiculturalism Barbara Johnson

Moses and Multiculturalism By Barbara Johnson

Moses and Multiculturalism by Barbara Johnson


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Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his Moses and Monotheism, this work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. It explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures.

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Moses and Multiculturalism by Barbara Johnson

Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts - biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies - Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.

Moses and Multiculturalism Reviews

A strong book. -- Gyula Somogyi Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

About Barbara Johnson

Barbara Johnson was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Among her books are Persons and Things, The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading, and The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses Chapter 2. Moses and the Law Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian Chapter 6. Freud's Moses Chapter 7. Hurston's Moses Chapter 8. The German Moses Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie Epilogue

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CIN0520262549G
9780520262546
0520262549
Moses and Multiculturalism by Barbara Johnson
Used - Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20100225
126
N/A
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