The Dispersion: A History of the Word Diaspora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dufoix, Stéphane.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Brill's specials in modern history ; Volume 1.

Brill's Specials in Modern History ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Collection "Diaspora"--religious.

Collection "Diaspora".

Migration--religious.

Migration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Brill's Specials in Modern History Ser.

Dispersion

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word "diaspora", first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 From the Word to the Concept

Introduction to Part 1 23

1 The Word of the Septuagint 27

2 The Religious Space of Dispersion 76

3 Towards a Secular Concept 134

Part 2 Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal

Introduction to Part 2 181

4 Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror 185

5 A Name of One's Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora 231

6 The Reversal 279

Part 3 The Name of the Global

Introduction to Part 3 337

7 Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies 340

8 The Critical Turn 392

9 States and Their Diasporas 444

Conclusion: Two Cats and Three Demons 495.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2016).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

900432691X

9789004326910

OCLC:

965717098

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.