Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan

by Marc Redfield

Book Overview

Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities.

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823289060
• ISBN13: 9780823289066
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"