The politics of Purim : law, sovereignty and hospitality in the aesthetic afterlives of Esther
著者
書誌事項
The politics of Purim : law, sovereignty and hospitality in the aesthetic afterlives of Esther
（Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies, 694 . Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 25）（T & T Clark library of Biblical studies）
T&T Clark, 2021, c2020
- : pbk
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注記
Originally published: 2020
Includes bibliographical references ([194]-202) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Introduction: The Politics of Persecution
I. Lawlessness, Sovereignty and In-hospitality
1. Carnival, Lawlessness and Sovereignty
2. The State of Exception, Amalek and Sovereign Hospitality
II. Purim and the Enemy
3. The Anti-Memorial of Remembering to Forget
4. The Art of Exception in the Illuminated Megillah
5. Bare Life and Sovereignty
III. The Secular Politics of Esther: Sovereign and Legal Fallibility
6. Law's Limitations
7. Creaturely Sovereignty
IV. Purim and Hospitality
8. Esther the Good Host and the Good Sovereign
9. Mordecai's Mourning: Exclusion and Vulnerability
10. 'Shalokh Manos Re-mixed': An Aftselakhis Purimshpil
Conclusion
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