Francophone Sephardic Fiction - Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Roumani, Roumani Judith
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2024
• EAN: 9781793620118
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-011-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / Africa / North, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, History of Religion, Judaism, Literature: history & criticism, African History, North Africa