1492
The Poetics of Diaspora
Published on 1. August 2001
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8264-5131-6 (ISBN)
Description
This title takes as its premise the "lost world" of a shared Indian, Arab and Jewish culture which was destroyed in the early modern period by the expansion of Europe. Its discusses: literary texts, an examination of Genesis, Mediterranean cookery, Jewish mysticism and English Romanticism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5131-6 (9780826451316)
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Content
His slave, my tattoo - romancing a lost world; genealogy and Diasporatic memory - searching my family tree; a collision of two worlds - Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" and the Moorish Spain; nation, race and identity in Joyce's "Ulysses"; strangers amongst the nations - Mr Bloom and Spinoza; Mr Bloom's penis; "do fish ever get seasick? Spinoza and Mr Bloom interpret Exodus; more family stories - London, Sydney, Melbourne; "sheer perversity" - Zionism and anti-Zionism in the 1940s; the disaster of 1492 in world history; the disaster of 1492 - Europe and India; the fictionality of identity and the phenomenology of the Converso - Sally Morgan's "My Place". Concluding mosaic.