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This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the "Middle Sea" perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Across Boundaries and Marginal Worlds 1. Accidental Tourists and Reverse Homesickness in Portuguese Travelogues on the Holy Land (1555-1615) 2. The Feeling of Being Uprooted and the Idealization of the Native Country in the Discourse of the Moroccan Community Living in Portugal Around 1550, as Detected in Some Inquisitorial Sources 3. Between the Two Empires: Emphasis on Homesickness in Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1555-1562) 4. Far Away from Home in Morocco: A Contribution to the Study of the Prisoners of Ksar el-Kebir Battle 5. The Renegades Journey: From Christianity to Islam and Back 6. Portuguese Captives in Algiers: Between Pain and Pleasure Far from Home (1778-1812)
Part 2: Amidst Exile and Diasporas 7. Away from Home: Merchant Diasporas Between the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) 8. Jews of Portugal in Exile and
Saudade (XVI-XVII Centuries) 9. Nostalgia and Death: Cases from Diaspora Orthodox Communities (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Part 3: Literary Expressions and Terminology 10. The Epic Discourse as an Expression of "Homesickness" for a Mediterranean World: Jerónimo Corte-Real and the Battle of Lepanto 11. Silence and Nostalgia in Giuseppe Ungaretti's Poetry 12. "Irresistible and Corrosive Nostalgia" in the Epistolography of Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1913-1929) 13.
Saudade as a Mythological Figure: Adamastor or the Narrative of a Redeeming Solitude
Part 4: Heritage, Identity, and Memory 14. Judeo-Spanish Cancioneros in the Mediterranean and the Traceability of Home (1761-1913) 15. Homesickness Clubs: Collective Discourses of Nostalgia for the Homeland: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, 1835-1930 16. The Various Meanings of "Saudade" in the Context of Migrations Between Brazil and Japan
About the author
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His main area of interest is Jewish Studies, in which he has published more than 60 articles and 4 books.
João Teles e Cunha is an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His fields of interest are trade, society, and culture of South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern age, having published several articles and books on the subject.
Summary
This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the “Middle Sea” perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.
