mydiracisme: linga~yoni [diasporized identities] 3


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'diasporized
mydi~identity'
&
"cultural
anthropology"

[vervolg]



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Paradoxically,
I would also insist
that genealogy
as a shared historical memory,
most fully [but not exhaustively] represented in the actual,
physical identity of child
of one's parents
is crucial
to the maintenance
of cultural
identity.

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It is
the analog
for Jews of possession
of the womb
for
women.

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It
is that
which produces
some sense of reference,
of real anchoring,
for
difference.

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To
be sure,
I remark once more,
this genealogy has been denaturalized in Judaism
for thousands of years
through the mechanism of conversion,
but as I have indicated
such de-naturalization serves
at the same time
to reinforce the general symbol
of genealogical connection
through the ascription
of it
to the
convert.

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Diasporic
Jewish identity
has been founded
on common memory of shared space
and on the hope
for such a shared space
in an
infinitely deferred
future.

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Space
itself
is thus transformed
into
time.

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Memory
of territory
has made deterritorialization
possible,
and paradoxically,
the possession
of territory
may have made
Diaspora Jewishness
impossible.

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The
tragedy of Zionism
has been
its desperate - and I believe misdirected -
attempt to reduce real threats
to Jews and Jewishness
by concretizing
in the present what has been
a utopian symbol
for the
future.

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Diasporized
identities
seem threatened ones,
and one of the responses
to such threats
is separatism,
an attempt
at a social structure
that re-aggregates
the disaggregated,
re-integrizes
the non-integral,
by closing off
the borders,
by indeed
attempting to prevent mixing,
whether biological
or
cultural.

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Zionism,
like separate feminism,
is such an
attempt.

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Zionism
is a particular reading
of Jewish culture
and especially
of the
Bible.

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I
do not,
and could not,
given my hermeneutic theories,
argue that it is
a wrong reading
or
that there is a right reading
that can be countered
to it.

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But
I do argue,
however,
that it is not
the ONLY
reading.

~liefdesverdriet~
engel

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