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Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge

Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge T HE J EW IS H Q UA R T E R LY R EVIEW , Vol. 95, No. 3 (Summer 2005) 501–507 Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge GALIT H ASAN-ROKEM N OW, WHEN TH E B O D Y SEEMS to have been laid to rest, after the almost feverish attention by which it was addressed in the study of cul- ture and literature during the nineties, it may be possible to approach it with relative composure. It is thus, less agitated by the once ticklish, at other times painful, touch of interpretative endeavors fully or dominantly addressing the body as a cultural construct, as a discursive idiom, or as a vehicle of experience, that I attempt to put into words my relations with the body—my scholarly relations with the body. In folk-narrative scholarship concerning orally narrated traditions, the body is encountered in a distinctly double manifestation. First, one sees and senses the bodies of the individuals performing narratives, songs, jokes, proverbs, and riddles. Their contemporaneous proximity with the audience, including the researcher as audience, has been considered by some the very touchstone of the folkloric mode of experience. It is cer- tainly the physical presence of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge

Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 95 (3) – Jul 15, 2005

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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Copyright © 2005 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
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1553-0604

Abstract

T HE J EW IS H Q UA R T E R LY R EVIEW , Vol. 95, No. 3 (Summer 2005) 501–507 Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge GALIT H ASAN-ROKEM N OW, WHEN TH E B O D Y SEEMS to have been laid to rest, after the almost feverish attention by which it was addressed in the study of cul- ture and literature during the nineties, it may be possible to approach it with relative composure. It is thus, less agitated by the once ticklish, at other times painful, touch of interpretative endeavors fully or dominantly addressing the body as a cultural construct, as a discursive idiom, or as a vehicle of experience, that I attempt to put into words my relations with the body—my scholarly relations with the body. In folk-narrative scholarship concerning orally narrated traditions, the body is encountered in a distinctly double manifestation. First, one sees and senses the bodies of the individuals performing narratives, songs, jokes, proverbs, and riddles. Their contemporaneous proximity with the audience, including the researcher as audience, has been considered by some the very touchstone of the folkloric mode of experience. It is cer- tainly the physical presence of

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Jewish Quarterly ReviewUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Jul 15, 2005

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