BOOKS - Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
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Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Author: Monique Balbuena
Year: February 24, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.2 MB
Language: English
Year: February 24, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.2 MB
Language: English
This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish Algerian Sadia Levy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, and Argentine Juan Gelman. Each of them-Levy in French and Hebrew, Matitiahu in Hebrew and Ladino, and Gelman in Spanish and Ladino-expresses a hybrid or composite Sephardic identity through a strategic choice of competing languages and intertexts. Monique R. Balbuena's close literary readings of their works, which are mostly unknown in the United States, are strongly grounded in their social and historical context. Her focus on contemporary rather than classic Ladino poetry and her argument for the inclusion of Sephardic production in the canon of Jewish literature make Homeless Tongues a timely and unusual intervention.
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