Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth

Abstract

Employing Anzaldúa’s hom(e)ophobia and Avery Gordon’s modality of haunting, my proposed reading of the Book of Ruth aims to understand contemporary forms of dispossession and their impact, especially when they are supposedly over and done with, and when their oppressive nature is denied. Such denials are reflected in the Zionist discourse of the establishment of the state of Israel.