Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature: A Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367885502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Dario Miccoli

Opis

This book argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s onwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelist

Recenzje

'Approaching Sephardic and Mizrahi literature, Miccoli’s book claims that the texts produced by the Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa starting in the 1950s “bring about entangled processes of memorialization and heritagisation” of [their] past and present history”. The book mainly focuses on Jewish Maghrebi authors who relocated to France and Israel, yet among the contributions is a study by Silvina Schammah Gesser and Susana Brauner on the complexities of Arab-Jewish identities in authoritarian Argentina.' — Luis Roniger, Latin American Research Review 54(4), 2019 

Spis treści

Introduction: memories, books, diasporas 1. The literary work of Jewish Maghrebi authors in postcolonial France 2. An old-new land: Tunisia, France and Israel in two novels of Chochana Boukhobza 3. Aesthetics, politics and the complexities of Arab-Jewish diasporas in authoritarian Argentina 4. Writings of Jews from Libya in Italy and Israel 5. Lifewriting between Israel, the Diaspora and Morocco 6. Mizrahi fiction as a minor literature 7. The minor move of trauma 8. Oblivion and cutting: a Levinasian Reading of Shva Salhoov's Poetry

O autorze

Dario Miccoli is Research Fellow and adjunct lecturer in Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research and publications deal with the history and memory of the Jews of the Arab world and contemporary Mizrahi literature. He is the author of Histories of the Jews of Egypt: An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s (2015).