1492: The Poetics of DiasporaBloomsbury Academic, 02 օգս, 2001 թ. - 256 էջ An ambitious and wide-ranging book by a well-known author that ranges from discussions of literary texts to an examination of Genesis, Mediterranean cookery, The Thousand and One Nights, Zionism and Anti-Zionism, Jewish mysticism and English Romanticism.1492 takes as a 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. For Docker, as for Salman Rushdie in The Moor's Last Sigh, the crucial event of 1492 was not the discovery of the Americas but the almost simultaneous final defeat of Moorish Spain in the fall of Granada and the expulsion of the Jews of Spain. Besides destroying the great Islamic-Judaic culture in Spain, it marked the beginning of nationalisms based on race, religion and language. Like the Crusades, it created a notion of Europe in opposition to a previous Mediterranean civilization and one of its direct results was the Spanish inquisition. 1492 was also the beginning of several diasporas and, in the course of examining several 19th-and 20th-century works that deal with the 'Wandering Jew' (Ivanhoe, Ulysses), the author goes on to look at a number of literary texts as a vehicle for speculating about various consequences and complications for cultural and intellectual history which followed from this 'lost ideal.'> |
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... Exodus , nonetheless , in terms of Benjamin's great insight into the complicities of culture in history , a document of civilization that is at the same time a document of barbarism ? In this chapter I will focus on three moments of ...
... Exodus , nonetheless , in terms of Benjamin's great insight into the complicities of culture in history , a document of civilization that is at the same time a document of barbarism ? In this chapter I will focus on three moments of ...
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... Exodus which I think have influenced Western and world history very much for the worse . Exodus creates a representation of history as like an arrow , moving away from the past , which has no value except to be seen as bondage and ...
... Exodus which I think have influenced Western and world history very much for the worse . Exodus creates a representation of history as like an arrow , moving away from the past , which has no value except to be seen as bondage and ...
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... Exodus creates a representation of history where history should move away from paganism and polytheism , not only in Egypt but amongst the other Semitic peoples with whom the Israelites come into contact . In Genesis and again in Exodus ...
... Exodus creates a representation of history where history should move away from paganism and polytheism , not only in Egypt but amongst the other Semitic peoples with whom the Israelites come into contact . In Genesis and again in Exodus ...
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