Sephardic-American voices : two hundred years of a literary legacy
著者
書誌事項
Sephardic-American voices : two hundred years of a literary legacy
（The Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life）
University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, [c1997]
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This collection of stories, poems, and plays by American Jews of Sephardic descent gives voice to a culture previously unheard in a literary canon with a predominantly Eastern European and Ashkenazic accent. Representing only five percent of US Jewish immigrants, Sephardim have necessarily existed on the margins of Jewish and American life. Yet these Jews of Spanish, Greek, and Middle Eastern origins have, as Diane Matza demonstrates, maintained their ethnic identity despite persecution, expulsion, and prolonged cultural insularity. These selections, many available for the first time, span nearly three centuries and examine themes such as the centrality of family life, the pain of uprooting from established communities, collision between tradition and assimilation, roles and relationships of men and women, and the toxicity of self-hatred. Informed by sources ranging from biblical literature to historical events, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat generation, and postmodern ironies, these works introduce a literature that, though small on an absolute scale and little known, forces us to take a new critical perspective on Jewish American writing.
「Nielsen BookData」 より
