03287nam 2200649Ia 450 991013271210332120200520144314.01-282-76398-9978661276398410.1525/9780520946101(CKB)3370000000000084(EBL)922932(OCoLC)794663694(SSID)ssj0000439822(PQKBManifestationID)11281749(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439822(PQKBWorkID)10465208(PQKB)11715615(MiAaPQ)EBC922932(OCoLC)668193496(MdBmJHUP)muse30587(DE-B1597)520772(DE-B1597)9780520946101(Au-PeEL)EBL922932(CaPaEBR)ebr10675769(CaONFJC)MIL276398(EXLCZ)99337000000000008420090513d2010 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMoses and multiculturalism /Barbara Johnson ; foreword by Barbara Rietveld1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (127 p.)Flashpoints ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26254-9 0-520-94610-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-104) and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Introduction --Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses --Chapter 2. Moses and the Law --Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus --Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper --Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian --Chapter 6. Freud's Moses --Chapter 7. Hurston's Moses --Chapter 8. The German Moses --Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie --Epilogue --Notes --IndexCountering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts-biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies-Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ;2.MulticulturalismMulticulturalism.222/.109211.41bclJohnson Barbara1947-2009.248434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910132712103321Moses and multiculturalism2456055UNINA