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Shai Ginsburg

Shai Ginsburg

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
shai.ginsburg@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708-0414
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Featured Works

Paul de Man’s Death Mask

Journal article Mikan · 2016 Featured Publication This essay presents a close reading of Paul de Man’s seminal essay, Autobiography as Defacement. It seeks to uncover the unsettling effect de Man finds in autobiography by paying close attention to the images of the suffering human body and ... Cite

Alon Hilu and the Hebrew historical novel

Journal article Shofar · June 1, 2015 Featured Publication In this paper, I discuss Alon Hilu’s two historical novels, Death of a Monk (2004) and The Dejani Estate (2008), as symptomatic of Israeli culture of the twenty-first century. I argue that the question of genre-historical fiction-is as central to the const ... Full text Cite

Poetry and Conflict: on Civility, Citizenship and Criticism

Book section · 2015 Featured Publication Cite

Rhetoric and nation: The formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880–1990

Book · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Recent and commonly accepted criticism holds that written and spoken Hebrew reveals a shared logic, a collective rhetoric that is identifiable and can be traced as an evolving phenomenon throughout the centuries. In Rhetoric and Nation, Ginsburg charts the ... Cite

The Bookcase and the Language of Grace

Journal article Mikan · 2014 Featured Publication Cite

S. Yizhar’s Khirbet Khizeh and the rhetoric of conflict

Book section · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Full text Cite

The Physics of Being Jewish, or On Cats and Jews

Journal article AJS Review · November 2011 Featured Publication The opening scene of Joel and Ethan Coen'sA Serious Manhas baffled many. What does an unsettling tale of an encounter with what may or may not be a dybbuk, set in the mid-nineteenth century in a Polish shtetl, and played ... Full text Cite

Signs and wonders: Fetishism and hybridity in Homi Bhabha's the location of culture

Journal article New Centennial Review · December 1, 2009 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Literature, Territory, Criticism: Brenner and the "Erets-Israeli" Genre

Journal article Theory and Criticism · 2007 Featured Publication Cite

Between Language and Land: Moshe Smilansky’s ‘Hawaja Nazar’

Journal article Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature · 2006 Featured Publication Cite