A Horse is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course,” or Some Nagging Suspicions about Some Jewish Writers

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-05-23 DOI:10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.2.02
J. Geller
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Abstract:The essay examines the interrelationship of Jewish identification (self and/or ascribed) and the fashioning of human-horse hybrids in Primo Levi (“Quaestio de Centauris”), Bernard Malamud (“Talking Horse”), and Moacyr Scliar (The Centaur in the Garden). It begins its interrogation of the appeal of the centaur to several Jewish writers after the era of human-equine symbiosis ended by tracing how distinctions between horse and donkey as well as judgments of horsemanship had previously mediated gentile/Jewish difference. Then, while noting the possible influences of earlier Jewish literary constructions of Judentum-associated horses or horse-human hybrids on Levi, Malamud, and Scliar, the essay turns to their particular works. Mounted upon their respective human-horse hybrids, these three writers explore the supplemental character of Jewish identification in Western modernity, by which the dominant gentile society’s ascribed Jewishness supplemented and often superseded the thus-identified individual’s own diverse identifications. These writers examined this Jewish condition in relation to the modern Western (male) individual’s experiences of doubleness, as well as to whether there was a place for any hybrid subject that may emerge out of—and be distinct from—the identifications by which Jews were interpellated into or out of the “human” community.
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《马就是马,当然,当然》或《对犹太作家的怀疑》
摘要:本文考察了普里莫·列维(《半人马座的问题》)、伯纳德·马拉穆德(《会说话的马》)和莫阿西尔·斯克利尔(《花园里的半人马座》)中犹太人身份认同(自我和/或归属)与人马混血儿塑造之间的相互关系。在人马共生时代结束后,书中开始探究半人马对几位犹太作家的吸引力,追溯了马和驴之间的区别以及对骑术的判断是如何调解非犹太人/犹太人之间的差异的。然后,当注意到早期犹太文学结构中与judentum相关的马或马-人混血对Levi, Malamud和sclier的可能影响时,文章转向他们的特定作品。这三位作者骑在各自的人马混血儿身上,探索了西方现代性中犹太人身份认同的补充特征,通过这种特征,占主导地位的非犹太人社会所赋予的犹太人身份补充并经常取代了因此而被认同的个人自己的各种身份认同。这些作者将犹太人的处境与现代西方(男性)个体的双重经历联系起来,以及是否有一个地方可以容纳任何混血主体,这些主体可能从犹太人被要求进入或离开“人类”社区的身份中脱颖而出,并与之截然不同。
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期刊介绍: For sixteen years, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History has brought to the study of Jewish literature, in its many guises and periods, new methods of study and a new wholeness of approach. A unique exchange has taken place between Israeli and American scholars, as more work from Israelis has appeared in the journal. Prooftexts" thematic issues have made important contributions to the field.
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