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Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing
Elaine Marks
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Description for Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing
Hardback. Examining Jewish presence in French literature, this book explores the many shapes and forms in which Jews are perceived, spoken, and written about. It looks at strains of antisemitism running through French literature, analyzing such antecedents as the nihilism of the 1880s and its meditation on death and absence. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
When Europeans in the Middle Ages spoke of "marranos," they were making a derogatory reference to "crypto-Jews"--those who publicly converted to and performed as Christians, but who remained secretly faithful to Judaic law. Today, asserts Elaine Marks in Marrano as Metaphor, the concept can be used to describe all Jews living in a dominant Christian or Muslim culture, whatever may be their conscious relationship to Judaism. A sweeping examination of the Jewish presence in French literature from the sixteenth century to the present, Marrano as Metaphor explores the many shapes and forms in which jews are perceived, spoken, and ... Read more
When Europeans in the Middle Ages spoke of "marranos," they were making a derogatory reference to "crypto-Jews"--those who publicly converted to and performed as Christians, but who remained secretly faithful to Judaic law. Today, asserts Elaine Marks in Marrano as Metaphor, the concept can be used to describe all Jews living in a dominant Christian or Muslim culture, whatever may be their conscious relationship to Judaism. A sweeping examination of the Jewish presence in French literature from the sixteenth century to the present, Marrano as Metaphor explores the many shapes and forms in which jews are perceived, spoken, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231103084
SKU
V9780231103084
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About Elaine Marks
Elaine Marks was President of the Modern Language Association in 1993. She is Chair of the Department of French and Italian and Germaine Bree Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, author ofSimone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death,Colette, editor ofCritical Essays on simone de Beauvoir and co-editor ofNew French Feminisms andHomosexualities and French Literature.
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