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Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492
- Title
- Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 / David A. Wacks.
- Author
- Wacks, David A.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 298 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time"--
- Series Statement
- Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
- Uniform Title
- Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
- Subjects
- Spanish literature > Foreign countries
- Sephardic authors
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Jewish diaspora in literature
- 1200 - 1700
- Spanish literature > 13th century > History and criticism
- Spanish literature > Foreign countries > History and criticism
- Spanish literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
- Spanish literature > Classical period
- Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Jewish literature > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
- Contents
- Note on translation -- Introduction -- Diaspora studies for Sephardic culture -- Allegory and romance in diaspora: Jacob ben Elazar's book of tales -- Poetry in diaspora: from al-Andalus to Provence and back to Castile -- The anxiety of vernacularization: Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión's Proverbios morales and debate between the pen and the scissors -- Diaspora as tragicomedy: Vidal Benvenist's Efer and Dina -- Empire and diaspora: Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah and Joseph Karo's Magid Meisharim -- Reading Amadis in Constantinople: Spanish fiction in the key of diaspora -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- *PXO 15-222
- ISBN
- 9780253015723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0253015723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780253015761 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014044168
- OCLC
- 883645437
- Author
- Wacks, David A.
- Title
- Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 / David A. Wacks.
- Publisher
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studiesIndiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1200 - 1700
- Research Call Number
- *PXO 15-222