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Author Balbuena, Monique, author

Title Homeless tongues : poetry and languages of the Sephardic diaspora / Monique R. Balbuena
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016

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Contents Minor literatures and major laments : reading Sadia Lévy -- At the crossroads : Greece, Israel and Spain in Margalit Matitiahu's Hebrew-Ladino poetry -- Archaeology of the language/archaeology of the self : Juan Gelman's journey to Ladino -- Conclusion : wither?
Summary 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 literature: Algerian Sadia Lévy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, and Argentine Juan Gelman. Each of them--Lévy 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jewish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Ladino poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Hebrew poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Sephardic authors -- Language
Multilingualism and literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
Hebrew poetry, Modern
Jewish poetry
Ladino poetry
Multilingualism and literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804797498
0804797498