Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature - Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: David A Wacks, David A. Wacks, Wacks David a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253015723
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01572-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and; Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies; Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies; Indiana Sephardi and Mizrahi S; Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous