{"product_id":"shibboleth-judges-derrida-celan-paperback","title":"Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarc Redfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorking from the Bible to contemporary art, \u003ci\u003eShibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial \u003ci\u003eshin\u003c\/i\u003e phoneme. In modern European languages, \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 cliché. The semantic field of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e-technologies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celan's subtle yet fierce reorientation of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e merits scrupulous reading. This book interprets the episode in Judges together with Celan's poems and Jacques Derrida's reading of them, as well as passages from William Faulkner's \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e and Doris Salcedo's 2007 installation \u003ci\u003eShibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e at the Tate Modern. Redfield pursues the track of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial \u003ci\u003eshin\u003c\/i\u003e phoneme. In modern European languages, \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. The semantic field of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celan's subtle yet fierce reorientation of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e merits scrupulous reading. This book interprets the episode in Judges together with modern works by Celan, Jacques Derrida, William Faulkner, and Doris Salcedo. Redfield pursues the track of \u003ci\u003eshibboleth\u003c\/i\u003e: 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Redfield\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Redfield\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9\/11 and the War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2009) and \u003ci\u003eTheory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42740357890144,"sku":"9780823289073","price":70.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/qDGNuccs4N9780823289073.webp?v=1778090164","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/shibboleth-judges-derrida-celan-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}