Moses and Multiculturalism

Zusatztext "A strong book." Informationen zum Autor 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 . Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Johnson
• Assisted by: Barbara Rietveld (Foreword), Rietveld Barbara (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2010
• EAN: 9780520262546
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26254-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Series: Flashpoints; Flashpoints (University of Cal; Flashpoints
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory