Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain

by Beckwith,Stacy N.

• ISBN13: 9780815333258
• ISBN10: 0815333250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spainelaborates an interdiscursive picture of how Medieval Spain has been remembered by various Arab, Jewish, and Hispanic peoples from well before 1492 to the present. The collection breaks with traditional foci on the legacies of separate Iberian communities and their descendants, and on limited, largely textual sets of their related cultural practices. In distinct ways, this collection takes a multi-ethnic and multi-modal approach, departing from sociologist Maurice Halbwachs' premise that collective memories form not within individuals alone, but through the inner and inter-workings of actual and conceptual social milieux. The volume hereby foregrounds the constitutive roles of communities created through prayer, literary resonances, architecture, musical performance, and name giving, in shaping memories of medieval Spanish contexts as well as complex identities in the Balkans, the Near and Middle East, North Africa, Latin American, and the UnitedStates. The ten original essays in this collection, by international specialists in anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary criticism, folklore, and onomastics, are not arranged according to Arab, Jewish, and Hispanic cultural memories of medieval Spain. Instead, the collection's unique comparative emphasis illuminates ways in which various peoples have re-articulated memories relating to medieval Spain in and across physical, temporal, and social locations, with different types and degrees of impact.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Al-Andalus/Iberia/Sepharad: Memory among Modern Discourses	xiii
Stacy N. Beckwith
``We've Always Sung It That Way'': Re/Appropriation of Medieval Spanish Jewish Culture in a Galician Town	1	(34)
Judith R. Cohen
Crypto-Jewish Ballads and Prayers in the Portuguese Oral Tradition	35	(51)
Manuel da Costa Fontes
A Collusion of Gardens: Continuity of Memory in Medieval Sephardic Poetry	86	(25)
Libby Garshowitz
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Al-Andalus and Memory: The Past and Being Present among Hispano-Moroccan Andalusians from Rabat	111	(33)
Beebe Bahrami
Voices from the Past: Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Nicknames among the Israeli-Sephardic Jews from Salonika	144	(27)
Shmuel Refael
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Spanish Balconies in Morocco: A Window on Cultural Influence and Historical Persistence in the Mallah (Jewish) Community	171	(23)
Hsain Ilahiane
Memory: One Hundred Years of Solitude	194	(35)
Sultana Wahnon
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Musical 'Membrances of Medieval Muslim Spain	229	(34)
Dwight F. Reynolds
``Al-Andalus Arising from Damascus'': Al-Andalus in Modern Arabic Poetry	263	(31)
Reuven Snir
American Sephardim, Memory, and the Representation of European Life	294	(29)
Jack Glazier
Afterword	323	(4)
Louise Mirrer
Glossary	327	(6)
Stacy N. Beckwith
Contributors	333	(6)
Index	339
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