Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese

A Comprehensive Handbook

Ruth Fine, Susanne Zepp, Ruth Fine, Susanne Zepp

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783110531060
• eBook ISBN: 9783110561111
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Jewish Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• I Medieval Constellations
• II Early Modern Contexts
• III The Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries
• IV The Twentieth Century
• V Contemporary Contexts
• Index