Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

Davison, Carol Margaret

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“…Avrupa'yı işgal eden Müslüman Öteki'nin mevcut tasvirleri, Yahudi figürünün karşıtlığı ve Gotikleştirme ile tarihsel sürekliliklerini göstermektedir. İşgal kinayesi ve on dokuzuncu yüzyıl Britanya'sında Yahudi karşıtlığında bulunan parazit ile anlamsal ilişkisi, zamanın Gotik anlatılarına ve Yahudi sorununu simgeleyen ulussuz Gezgin Yahudi figürüne (Shapiro, 1997;Davison, 2004) yansıdığı görülmektedir. Halberstam, (1995, s. 14) Yahudi'nin "sermayeye, erkekliğe ve ulusluğa yönelik bir tehdit olarak mimlendiğini" belirtmektedir."…”

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Conflating The Muslim Refugee and The Terror Suspect: Responses to the Syrian Refugee “Crisis” in Brexit Britain”

Abbas

2022

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Suriyeli mülteci “krizi”, bir yanda Avrupa’nın sınırlarını güvenlileştirmesine sebep olurken, diğer yanda tabandan gelen merhamet duygusuna karşı çelişkili tepkilere yol açmaktadır. Bu merhamet, ırksal veya dinsel farklılıktan bağımsız olarak, insanın eşit şekilde güvenlik haklarına layık olduğuna dair evrensel bir anlayış ortaya koymaktadır. Bununla birlikte, 2015 ve 2016 Paris terör saldırılarının takiben, İslamcı teröristlerin Avrupa'ya girmek için mülteci kanallarını sömürmesinden duyulan korkular, İngiltere terör saldırılarının ardından Brexit politikasını çerçeveleyen popülist bir milliyetçilik ve son dönemdeki Müslüman düşmanlığının artmasıyla birlikte mültecilere karşı bir tepki oluşmuştur. “Müslüman mülteci” ile “terör zanlısı” kavramlarının tehdit unsuru olarak bir araya gelmesi ve güvenlik kaygısını insan haklarının üzerinde tutan terörle mücadele, sığınma rejimlerinin kesiştiği yerde mevcut olan ırksallaştırılmış bir biyopolitikayı harekete geçirdiğini savunmaktayım. Suriyeli mülteci “krizi” içindeki “Müslüman sorununu” çerçeveleyen ırksal terörün altında yatan sürekliliği anlamak için bir çerçeve olarak “Toplanmış Gotik” kavramını geliştirmekteyim.

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Conflating The Muslim Refugee and The Terror Suspect: Responses to the Syrian Refugee “Crisis” in Brexit Britain”

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2022

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“…Current depictions of the Muslim Other invading Europe demonstrate historical continuities with anti-semitism and Gothicisation of the figure of the Jew. The trope of invasion and its semantic association with the parasite present in anti-semitism in nineteenth century England was reflected in Gothic narratives of the time and the figure of the nationless Wandering Jew (Shapiro 1997;Davison 2004) emblematic of the Jewish question. Halberstam notes (1995,14) that the Jew was "marked as a threat to capital, to masculinity, and to nationhood."…”

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Conflating the Muslim refugee and the terror suspect: responses to the Syrian refugee “crisis” in Brexit Britain

Abbas

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The Syrian refugee "crisis" has prompted contradictory responses of securitization of European borders on the one hand, and grassroots compassion on the other, that posit a universal conception of the human deserving of equal rights to safety irrespective of racial or religious difference. However, in the aftermath of the 2015 and 2016 Paris terror attacks there has been a backlash against refugees amid fears of Islamist terrorists exploiting refugee channels to enter Europe, as well as an upsurge in a populist nationalism framing Brexit and anti-Muslim hostility following recent UK terror attacks. I argue that the convergence of the "Muslim refugee" and the "terror suspect" as threatening mobilizes a racialized biopolitics present in intersecting counter-terrorism and asylum regimes that prioritise security concerns above human rights. I advance the Concentrationary Gothic as a framework for understanding continuities in logics of racial terror framing the "Muslim question" within the Syrian refugee "crisis."

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Anti‐Semitism

Davison¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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Critical consideration of anti‐Semitism in Gothic literature in recent decades developed out of scholarship examining the Gothic's engagement with religious/theological issues. Several exemplary essays focus on the figure of the Jew in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and other Victorian fin‐de‐siècle texts, and Davison (2004) presents a comprehensive overview of anti‐Semitism in British Gothic literature and the terror fuelled by the “Jewish Question,” issues and resolutions relating to the Jews, primarily in Europe, who long occupied an unequal legal and civil status to non‐Jews. Several scholars have cogently argued that the atmospheric terror and rhetoric of Gothic literature is theological at its core, and that these works are essentially veiled cautionary‐style sermons. The critical commonplace, largely uncontested, is that British Gothic literature is marked by a prevalent anti‐Catholicism. In an attempt to assert the hegemony of Anglicanism/Protestantism, Catholicism, Britain's former national religion, is generally represented as corrupt, obscurantist, deviant, and grounded in superstition. In stark contrast, fanatical Protestant sects have been identified as the principal target in American and Scottish Gothic literature (see american gothic ; scottish gothic ). Despite this key difference, both traditions were established by Protestants/Anglicans who, in the views of numerous critics, displaced their fears about their own nature, condition, and fate onto various Others.

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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

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Conflating The Muslim Refugee and The Terror Suspect: Responses to the Syrian Refugee “Crisis” in Brexit Britain”

Conflating The Muslim Refugee and The Terror Suspect: Responses to the Syrian Refugee “Crisis” in Brexit Britain”

Conflating the Muslim refugee and the terror suspect: responses to the Syrian refugee “crisis” in Brexit Britain

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