Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic : blood and faith /
"Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World Crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the mat...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Bloomington and Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2005xp7 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Audience and archive: text, context, and the literary construction of experience
- 2. "Hermanos en el senor": spiritual and social fraternity and paternity in Luis de Carvajal, el Mozo's spiritual autobiography (Mexico 1595)
- 3. A prophetic matrix: motherhood, sorority and a re-imagined sagrada familia
- 4. Writing his way into the Jewish people: faith, blood and community in Manuel Cardoso de Macedo's Vida del Buenaventurado Abraham Pelengrino
- 5. "All of us are brothers": race, faith and the limits of brotherhood in the relacion of Antonio de Montezinos, Alias Aharon Halevi (1644).