Judith Roumani

Francophone Sephardic Fiction

Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781793620095
• ISBN-10: 1793620091
• Artikelnr.: 63434925

Autorenporträt

Judith Roumani is founder and director of the Jewish Institute of Pitigliano.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Migratory Writing and the Novel
Chapter 1: From Orality to Writing: Storytelling in Sephardic Literature
Chapter 2: The Portable Homeland: Ryvel and Koskas
Chapter 3: The End of Symbiosis: Sephardic Novelists and the Sudden
Ruptures of History
Chapter 4: Migratory writing by Bensoussan (Algeria/France) , Bouganim
(Morocco/Israel), Kayat (Tunisia/Sweden)
Chapter 5: Modernity and Beyond
Chapter 6: A Return into History
Conclusions