Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

This book argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s onwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelist

Dario Miccoli is Research Fellow and adjunct lecturer in Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His research and publications deal with the history and memory of the Jews of the Arab world and contemporary Mizrahi literature. He is the author of Histories of the Jews of Egypt: An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s (2015).

Introduction: memories, books, diasporas 1. The literary work of Jewish Maghrebi authors in postcolonial France 2. An old-new land: Tunisia, France and Israel in two novels of Chochana Boukhobza 3. Aesthetics, politics and the complexities of Arab-Jewish diasporas in authoritarian Argentina 4. Writings of Jews from Libya in Italy and Israel 5. Lifewriting between Israel, the Diaspora and Morocco 6. Mizrahi fiction as a minor literature 7. The minor move of trauma 8. Oblivion and cutting: a Levinasian Reading of Shva Salhoov's Poetry