Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi literature : a diaspora / edited by Dario Miccoli.

Publication

• Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Miccoli, Dario

Description

ix, 163 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned the Diaspora/Israel dichotomy and analysed the Jews who moved to Israel and those that settled elsewhere as part of a new, diverse and interconnected diaspora. Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and afterwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelists, poets, professional and amateur writers - from the Israeli poets Erez Biton and Shva Salhoov to Francophone authors such as Chochana Boukhobza, Ami Bouganim and Serge Moati - the book explains that these Sephardic and Mizrahi authors are part of a global literary diaspora at the crossroads of past Arab legacies, new national identities and persistent feelings of Jewishness. Some of the chapters emphasize how the Sephardic and Mizrahi past and present identities are narrated, how generational and ethno-national issues are taken into account and which linguistic and stylistic strategies the authors adopted. Other chapters focus more explicitly on how the relations between national societies and different Jewish migrant communities are narrated, both in today's Israel and in the diaspora. The book helps to bridge the gap between Hebrew and postcolonial literature, and opens up new perspectives on Sephardic and Mizrahi literature"--

Series Statement

Routledge Jewish studies

Uniform Title

Routledge Jewish studies series.

Subjects

• Sephardic authors
• Mizrahi authors
• Jewish diaspora in literature
• Middle Eastern literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
• Spanish literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-7290

ISBN

• 9781138233836
• 1138233838

LCCN

2016050414

OCLC

962323470

Title

Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi literature : a diaspora / edited by Dario Miccoli.

Publisher

Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge Jewish studies

Routledge Jewish studies series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Miccoli, Dario, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7290