Exilic Alliance

Diaspora, Cohabitation, and Translation in Judith Butler'sParting Ways

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ID3971093
AuthorsLouis Klee (0000-0001-6652-5422, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity St., Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume25
Issue3
Pages282-308
Publication date2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2020.1732723
OpenAlexW3009352705
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited43

By placing Butler’s Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) in counterpoint with Said’s After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (1986), this essay aims to shed new light on Butler’s political and ethical writing, revealing, in particular, the ways in which a politics of cohabitation is inseparable from the process of translation. Both Butler and Said articulate the difficult yet necessary task of establishing a just cohabitation through the translation between two histories of exile, Jewish and Palestinian. Firstly, I examine Butler’s efforts to derive a principle of cohabitation from the Jewish history of diaspora, arguing that it should be understood as a response to Said’s reflections on Jewishness in Freud and the Non-European. I then seek to illuminate how statelessness structures the interplay of text and image in After the Last Sky, arguing that exilic tension provides the framework for Said’s rethinking of comparativism

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Cohabitation · Diaspora · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statelessness · Theology · Zionism · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy

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