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  title info:
    title: Shibboleth
    sub title: Judges, Derrida, Celan
  name:
    name part: Redfield, Marc
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend. 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 sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The semantic field of shibboleth 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 shibboleth-technologies. In 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 shibboleth 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 Absalom! Absalom! and Doris Salcedo's 2007 installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern. Redfield pursues the track of shibboleth, 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.
  note: Marc Redfield.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Judges, XII
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Derrida, Jacques
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Celan, Paul
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Other (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Shibolet (The Hebrew word)
  classification: BD460.O74 R435 2021
  classification: 128
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lit z
  identifier: 9780823289066
  identifier: 0823289060
  identifier: 9780823289073
  identifier: 0823289079
  identifier: 9780823289080
  identifier: 2020036890
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200819
    record change date: 20210728141207.0
    record identifier: in00004434996