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Francophone Sephardic Fiction
Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity
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2022
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Francophone Sephardic Fiction:Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative way to draw out similarities and differences among selected francophone novelists from various countries, with a focus on North Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just Spain: it embraces Jews whose ancestors had lived in North Africa for centuries, even before the arrival of Islam, and who still today trace their allegiance to ways of being Jewish that go back to Babylon, as do those whose ancestors spent a few hundred years in Iberia. The author traces the strong influence of oral storytelling on modern novelists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explores the idea of the portable homeland, as exile and migration engulfed the long-rooted Sephardic communities. The author also examines diaspora concepts, how modernity and post-modernity threatened traditional ways of life, and how humor and an active return into history for the novel have done more than mere nostalgia could to enliven the portable homeland of modern francophone Sephardic fiction.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2009-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2010-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
From Orality to Writing No access Pages 27 - 46
The “Portable Homeland” No access Pages 47 - 64
The End of Symbiosis No access Pages 65 - 80
Migratory Writing by Bensoussan (Algeria/France), Bouganim (Morocco/Israel), Kayat (Tunisia/Sweden) No access Pages 81 - 98
