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Titre(s) : Jews and journeys [Texte imprimé] : travel and the performance of Jewish identity / edited by Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin
Édition : 1st edition
Publication : Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) : University of Pennsylvania press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-352 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Lien à la collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Travels of dislocation and return, discovery and conquest, hold a prominent place
in formative Jewish and non-Jewish fictions of identity. It would almost seem that
wherever a self or community is located it has always dreamed of being elsewhere and
used travel writing as a cultural mechanism for exploring and shaping its own fictions
of identity. What is it about travel writing that enables it to become one of the
central cultural mechanisms for exploring and shaping themes of identity? How does
this genre produce representations of an "other" and his world, against which and
through which it explores and invents a particular sense of self? How do travel discourses
work with and against other forms of cultural representation and give contour to territory
and experience? Do the different types of travel construct different types of self,
of others, and self-other interaction, and how do the various types of travel writing
interact and influence one another? In other words, what cultural and ideological
work is performed by these texts? These are some of the questions explored in this
volume"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Levinson, Joshua (1953-....). Éditeur scientifique
Bashkin, Orit (1974-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Voyages -- Dans la littérature
Récits de voyages
Littérature juive -- Thèmes, motifs
Juifs -- Identité collective
Juifs -- Voyages
Voyageurs juifs
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.889 24 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Pour ou par les juifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-8122-5295-8. - ISBN 0-8122-5295-0. - ISBN 978-0-8122-9793-5 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469446380
Notice n° :
FRBNF46944638
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Chapter 1. Departures / Joshua Levinson ; Chapter 2. Why do we need a cultural history
of travel-and what do the Jews have to do with it? / Joan-Pau Rubiés ; Chapter 3.
The travels and travails of Abraham / Joshua Levinson ; Chapter 4. Wondrous nature
: landscape and weather in early pilgrimage narratives / Ora Limor ; Chapter 5. Prophecy
and peregrination : curious encounters with Biblical lands and Biblical texts in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Elliott Horowitz ; Chapter 6. Flying camels
and other remarkable species : natural marvels in medieval Hebrew travel accounts
/ Martin Jacobs ; Chapter 7. A Jewish critique of European Orientalism in the eighteenth
century : Marco Navarra's Lettere orientali / Asher Salah ; Chapter 8. No place like
home : the uses of travel in early Maskilic translations / Iris Idelson-Shein ; Chapter
9. Travel and poverty : the itinerant pauper in medieval Jewish society in Islamic
countries / Miriam Frenkel ; Chapter 10. The Jewish tradition of the Wandering Jew
: the poetics of long duration / Galit Hasan-Rokem ; Chapter 11. Between the wild
and the civilized : a Yiddish travel writer in Peru / Jack Kugelmass ; Chapter 12.
The new Zionist road map : from old gravesites to new settlements / Israel Bartal
; Chapter 13. Heritage utterances in Jewish destinations : travelers, texts, and museum
visitor books / Chaim Noy ; Chapter 14. Traveling, seeing, and painting : Amsterdam
and the creation of Jewish art in the work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck /
Nils Roemer ; Chapter 15. Jerusalem journeys : wandering women in contemporary Israeli
cinema / Anat Zang.
