Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature : Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 / David A. Wacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wacks, David A.

Series:

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish diaspora in literature.

Spanish literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature--13th century--History and criticism.

Sephardic authors.

Spanish literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015761

0253015766

OCLC:

908447868