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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... father , who died in the early 1980s , was of mixed English and Irish descent , his Irish mother having migrated to Sydney town . sometime in the 1880s , there to marry an Englishman , Henry Docker . My father lived at his mother's ...
... father , who died in the early 1980s , was of mixed English and Irish descent , his Irish mother having migrated to Sydney town . sometime in the 1880s , there to marry an Englishman , Henry Docker . My father lived at his mother's ...
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... father had soldiered through the 1914-18 war unscathed ( he was 92 when he died ) . The only skill he acquired from his army service was driving ( he was in Army Transport ) , and in civvy street he eked out a precarious living driving ...
... father had soldiered through the 1914-18 war unscathed ( he was 92 when he died ) . The only skill he acquired from his army service was driving ( he was in Army Transport ) , and in civvy street he eked out a precarious living driving ...
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... Father , a very tall man , was very bad- tempered , not least around the dinner table , especially ' with the boys ' , her brothers , and if he got too bad - tempered she would escape and stay overnight or for a few days with her ...
... Father , a very tall man , was very bad- tempered , not least around the dinner table , especially ' with the boys ' , her brothers , and if he got too bad - tempered she would escape and stay overnight or for a few days with her ...
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