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Emmett, Hilary 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-4440
(2008)
'My business is circumference': A meditation on scission, locution, confession.
The Bible and Critical Theory, 4 (2).
Abstract
This essay offers a speculative account of the metaphor of circumcision in Jacques Derrida’s autobiographical writing. I draw upon Elaine Scarry and Nancy Jay in addition to psychoanalytic readers of the Hebrew Bible (Julia Reinhard Lupton, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan) in order first to explore the meaning of circumcision in its Biblical context before bringing this significance to bear on Derrida’s work.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Katherine Humphries |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2012 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 09:28 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40159 |
| DOI: | 10.2104/bc080027 |
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