1492: The Poetics of Diaspora

Docker, John
Publication Date 2001
Publisher Continuum,
Binding Paperback
Condition Very good copy.
SKU 2426
Notes Very clean and bright.

Description

Paperback, 9'' x 6'', 279 pp. Part of the Literature, Culture and Identity series. Examines the concept of a ''lost world'' of a shared Indian, Arab and Jewish culture, undermined by the European expansion, and marking the beginning of nationalism of race, religion and language. This wide-ranging study considers ''Ivanhoe'', ''Ulysses'', family history, Genesis, Mediterranean cookery, Salman Rushdie, Zionism, Jewish mysticism and English Romanticism. Detailed bibliography. Index.
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