Sephardism [electronic resource] : Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Halevi-Wise, Yael.
Halevi-Wise, YaelContributor
Halevi-Wise, YaelEditor
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2012.
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India. Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and cultural figures have chosen to draw upon the medieval Sephardic experience to express their concerns about dissidents and minorities in modern nations? To what extent does their us
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Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Through the Prism of Sepharad Modern Nationalism, Literary History, and the Impact of the Sephardic Experience; Part I: The Problem of National Particularism in German, English, and French Literature on the Jews of Spain; 1. The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy in Nineteenth-Century Germany; 2. Writing Spanish History in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Inquisition and "the Secret Race"; 3. "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé": Representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French Grand Opera La Juive (1835)
4. The Strange Career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the HolocaustPart II: Jews and Hispanics Meet Again: Latin American Revisions of Judeo-Spanish Relations; 5. Sephardim and Neo-Sephardim in Latin American Literature; 6. The Life and Times of the Picaro-Converso from Spain to Latin America; Part III: Between Israel and Spain; 7. Facing Sepharad, Facing Israel and Spain: Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus Profiles of National Reconstitution; 8. Sephardic Identity and Its Discontents: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua
Part IV: Postmodern Reimaginings of Sepharad in Francophone, Latina, and Other Transnational Literatures9. "Le Juif Espagnol": The Idea of Sepharad among Colonial and Postcolonial Francophone Jewish Writers; 10. Sephardism in Latina Literature; 11. Sir Salman Rushdie Sails for India and Rediscovers Spain: Postmodern Constructions of Sepharad; Postscript: Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India. Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and cultural figures have chosen to draw upon the medieval Sephardic experience to express their concerns about dissidents and minorities in modern nations? To what extent does their us
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jews, Spanish, in literature.
Jews, Spanish, in literature.
Literature, Modern - History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Sephardim in literature.
Sephardim in literature.
Sephardim in literature
Jews, Spanish, in literature
Literature, Modern
Languages & Literatures
Literature - General