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Francophone Sephardic fiction : writing migration, diaspora, and modernity

Title
Francophone Sephardic fiction : writing migration, diaspora, and modernity / Judith Roumani.
Author
Roumani, Judith
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Details

Description
x, 171 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures"--
Series Statement
Sephardic and Mizrahi studies
Subject
  • African fiction (French) > History and criticism
  • African fiction (French) > Jewish authors > History and criticism
  • Sephardic authors > Africa, North
  • Emigration and immigration in literature
  • Jewish diaspora in literature
  • African fiction (French)
  • Sephardic authors
  • North Africa
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Literary criticism.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9781793620095
  • 1793620091
  • 9781793620101 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022005121
OCLC
1295241610
Author
Roumani, Judith, author.
Title
Francophone Sephardic fiction : writing migration, diaspora, and modernity / Judith Roumani.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Sephardic and Mizrahi studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Roumani, Judith. Francophone Sephardic fiction. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022] 9781793620101 (DLC) 2022005122
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