David A Wacks

Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature

Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492

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Produktbeschreibung

Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780253015723
• ISBN-10: 0253015723
• Artikelnr.: 41092109

Autorenporträt

David A. Wacks is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. He is author of Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain and editor (with Michelle Hamilton and Sarah Portnoy) of Wine, Women, and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Diaspora Studies for Sephardic Culture
2. Allegory and Romance in Diaspora: Jacob ben Elazar's Book of Tales
3. Poetry in Diaspora: From al-Andalus to Provence and back to Castile
4. The Anxiety of Vernacularization: Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Ardutiel de
Carrión's Proverbios morales and Debate between the Pen and the Scissors
5. Diaspora as Tragicomedy: Vidal Benvenist's Efer and Dina
6. Empire and Diaspora: Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah and Joseph
Karo's Magid Meisharim
7. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index