Sephardism
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
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 use of Sephardism overlap with other politicized discourses such as orie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-8171-8
- EAN: 9780804781718
- Produktnummer: 23011557
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'642 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (2003).
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