Jewish literatures in Spanish and Portuguese : a comprehensive handbook / edited by Ruth Fine and Susanne Zepp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fine, Ruth, 1957- editor.

Zepp, Susanne, editor.

Series:

De Gruyter Reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese literature.

Spanish literature--Jewish authors.

Spanish literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (686 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

I Medieval Constellations

1 Jewish and Converso History in Medieval Spain: The Castilian Case

2 The Poetry of Sefarad: Secular and Liturgical Hebrew Verse in Medieval Iberia

3 The kharadjāt

4 Jews and Conversos in Spanish Cancioneros and Portuguese Cancioneiros (c. 1350-1520)

II Early Modern Contexts

5 1492-1700: Early Modern Iberian-Jewish Cultural History

6 Converso Spectres: The Lessons and Challenges of Spanish 'Golden Age' Prose

7 From the Iberian Peninsula into the World: Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore and the 'Occidental' Concept of Love

8 The Literature of the Western Sephardim

9 Jews in the History and Culture of the Caribbean

III The Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

10 The Iberian Diasporas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

11 Conversos in Colonial Hispanic America

IV The Twentieth Century

12 The Twentieth Century in Iberian and Latin American History

13 Contemporary Jewish Literatures of Spain

14 Mapping Twentieth Century Sephardic Literature

15 Jewish-Brazilian Literatures

16 Jewish-Mexican Literatures: Ashkenazic Tradition and Culture

17 Sephardic Writing in Mexico

18 Jewish Literatures from the Rio de la Plata Region (Twentieth Century)

V Contemporary Contexts

19 Historiography and Literary Essays on Latin American Jews in the New Millennium

20 Contemporary Jewish Narrative in Twentyfirst Century Latin America

21 Writing Cuban Belonging through Jewish Eyes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110561111

3110561115

9783110563795

3110563797

OCLC:

1345589903