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Author Figueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-

Title Aryans, Jews, Brahmins : theorizing authority through myths of identity / Dorothy M. Figueira
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)
Series SUNY series, the margins of literature
SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Authority of an Absent Text -- Ch. 1 Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse of the Aryan -- Ch. 2 Romantic Aryans -- Ch. 3 Nietzsche's Aryan Ubermensch -- Ch. 4 Loose Can[n]ons -- pt. II Who Speaks for the Subaltern? -- Ch. 5 Rammohan Roy -- Ch. 6 Text-based Identity: Dayanand Saraswati's Reconstruction of the Aryan Self -- Ch. 7 Aryan Identity and National Self-Esteem -- Ch. 8 Anti-Myth
Summary In this cross-cultural study of the Aryan myth in which Brahmin Indian and European races but not Semitic ones share roots, Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Georgia) reads canons and "loose can[n]ons" in this origin myth's construction from Enlightenment and Romantic discourse to Indian reformers' anti- myths. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-202) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Indo-Aryans.
Vedic literature -- History and criticism
Racism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Antisemitism.
antisemitism.
HISTORY.
Antisemitism
Civilization
Indo-Aryans
Racism
Vedic literature
Ariërs.
Sanskriet.
Mythen.
Antisemitisme.
SUBJECT India -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064872
Subject Europe
India
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585489238
9780585489230
0791455319
9780791455319
0791455327
9780791455326
9780791487839
0791487830