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Employing Anzaldúa’s hom(e)ophobia and Avery Gordon’s modality of haunting, my proposed reading of the Book of Ruth aims to understand contemporary forms of dispossession and their impact, especially when they are supposedly over and done with, and when their oppressive nature is denied. Such denials are reflected in the Zionist discourse of the establishment of the state of Israel.
Keywords: Books mentioned in the bible; Old Testament; displacement; Loss; Jewish Diaspora; Homosexuality; Belonging (Social Psychology)
Rights: © by the author(s). This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Part of De/Constituting Wholes Containing:
[Frontmatter] /
Beginnings: Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History: Queer Historiography, Post-Slavery Subjectivities, and Sadomasochism in Isaac Julien’s The Attendant / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
Differently Queer: Temporality, Aesthetics, and Sexuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolioand Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli / Manuele Gragnolati
Warburg’s Ghost: On Literary Atlases and the ‘Anatopic’ Shift of a Cartographic Object / Filippo Trentin
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality / Jamila M.H. Mascat
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds: Integrating Models of Genetic Determination and Environmental Formation / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey: Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6 / Arnd Wedemeyer
An Eclipse of the Screen: Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais / Marcus Coelen
[Backmatter] /
Title
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth
Subtitle
Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions
Author(s)
Ruth Preser
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_03
Description
Employing Anzaldúa’s hom(e)ophobia and Avery Gordon’s modality of haunting, my proposed reading of the Book of Ruth aims to understand contemporary forms of dispossession and their impact, especially when they are supposedly over and done with, and when their oppressive nature is denied. Such denials are reflected in the Zionist discourse of the establishment of the state of Israel.
Is Part Of
De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Books mentioned in the bible
Old Testament
displacement
Loss
Jewish Diaspora
Homosexuality
Belonging (Social Psychology)
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Bibliographic Citation
Ruth Preser, ‘Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 47–65 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_03>
Language
en-GB
page start
47
page end
65
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 47–65
Format
application/pdf

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Cite as: Ruth Preser, ‘Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 47–65 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_03>