Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialismâs âPleasureâ
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Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11â31) against Edward Saidâs putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism) is the interest of this article. Aguilarâs interpretation fits, largely, Saidâs paradigm of sclerosed racial differences, cultural interpenetration within contested spaces, and a recovery of a Western perspective in the last. But her conformity to the pattern in the work is troubled by her commitment to a marginal Anglo-Jewish apologetic grounded in the religious ruminations of an ancient Eastern people and literature. Charting a course for her brand of Jewish piety to the center of Victorian religious culture with its moorings in Euro-supremacy, Aguilar remains tethered to her Near Eastern patrimony. She is, in the end, a reluctant imperialist.
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Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialismâs âPleasureâ
In: Biblical InterpretationSearch for other papers by Bernon Lee in
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Google Scholar
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Abstract
Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11â31) against Edward Saidâs putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism) is the interest of this article. Aguilarâs interpretation fits, largely, Saidâs paradigm of sclerosed racial differences, cultural interpenetration within contested spaces, and a recovery of a Western perspective in the last. But her conformity to the pattern in the work is troubled by her commitment to a marginal Anglo-Jewish apologetic grounded in the religious ruminations of an ancient Eastern people and literature. Charting a course for her brand of Jewish piety to the center of Victorian religious culture with its moorings in Euro-supremacy, Aguilar remains tethered to her Near Eastern patrimony. She is, in the end, a reluctant imperialist.
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| Abstract Views | 146 | 0 | 0 |
| Full Text Views | 251 | 57 | 3 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 299 | 38 | 3 |
