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Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature - A Diaspora (Paperback)
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Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature - A Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take
into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature
and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews.
However, few of these studies abandoned the Diaspora/Israel
dichotomy and analysed the Jews who moved to Israel and those that
settled elsewhere as part of a new, diverse and interconnected
diaspora. Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature argues that
the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who
migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and
afterwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena,
in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement
interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on
novelists, poets, professional and amateur writers - from the
Israeli poets Erez Biton and Shva Salhoov to Francophone authors
such as Chochana Boukhobza, Ami Bouganim and Serge Moati - the book
explains that these Sephardic and Mizrahi authors are part of a
global literary diaspora at the crossroads of past Arab legacies,
new national identities and persistent feelings of Jewishness. Some
of the chapters emphasise how the Sephardic and Mizrahi past and
present identities are narrated, how generational and
ethno-national issues are taken into account and which linguistic
and stylistic strategies the authors adopted. Other chapters focus
more explicitly on how the relations between national societies and
different Jewish migrant communities are narrated, both in today's
Israel and in the diaspora. The book helps to bridge the gap
between Hebrew and postcolonial literature, and opens up new
perspectives on Sephardic and Mizrahi literature. It will be a
valuable resource for students and scholars of Jewish and
Postcolonial Studies and Comparative Literature
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