Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese : : A Comprehensive Handbook / / ed. by Ruth Fine, Susanne Zepp.

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• MitwirkendeR: Amrán, Rica,; Bejarano, Margalit,; Boer, Harm den,; Bossong, Georg,; Diego Vila, Juan,; Dolle, Verena,; Fine, Ruth,; Flesler, Daniela,; Goldberg, Florinda F,; Granat, Yehoshua,; Ingenschay, Dieter,; Karkason, Tamir,; Kirschbaum, Saul,; Küpper, Joachim,; Moreno-Goldschmidt, Aliza,; Nelson Novoa, James,; Perea-Rodríguez, Óscar,; Schenkolewski-Kroll, Silvia,; Sefamí, Jacobo,; Senkman, Leonardo,; Sosnowski, Saúl,; Stavans, Ilan,; Waldmann, Berta,; Wilke, Carsten,; Zepp, Susanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Fine, Ruth,; Zepp, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Reference
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 678 p.)

This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Medieval Constellations -- 1 Jewish and Converso History in Medieval Spain: The Castilian Case -- 2 The Poetry of Sefarad: Secular and Liturgical Hebrew Verse in Medieval Iberia -- 3 The kharadjāt -- 4 Jews and Conversos in Spanish Cancioneros and Portuguese Cancioneiros (c. 1350–1520) -- II Early Modern Contexts -- 5 1492–1700: Early Modern Iberian-Jewish Cultural History -- 6 Converso Spectres: The Lessons and Challenges of Spanish ‘Golden Age’ Prose -- 7 From the Iberian Peninsula into the World: Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore and the ‘Occidental’ Concept of Love -- 8 The Literature of the Western Sephardim -- 9 Jews in the History and Culture of the Caribbean -- III The Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries -- 10 The Iberian Diasporas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 11 Conversos in Colonial Hispanic America -- IV The Twentieth Century -- 12 The Twentieth Century in Iberian and Latin American History -- 13 Contemporary Jewish Literatures of Spain -- 14 Mapping Twentieth Century Sephardic Literature -- 15 Jewish-Brazilian Literatures -- 16 Jewish-Mexican Literatures: Ashkenazic Tradition and Culture -- 17 Sephardic Writing in Mexico -- 18 Jewish Literatures from the Rio de la Plata Region (Twentieth Century) -- V Contemporary Contexts -- 19 Historiography and Literary Essays on Latin American Jews in the New Millennium -- 20 Contemporary Jewish Narrative in Twentyfirst Century Latin America -- 21 Writing Cuban Belonging through Jewish Eyes -- Index