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H-Judaic CFP: Prooftexts Jewish Literature/World Literature

Discussion published by Sarah Imhoff on Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Prooftexts Special Issue: Jewish Literature/ World Literature CFP

The transnational turn in Jewish literary scholarship has occasioned a methodological rethinking of Jewish literary studies. The discourse on world literature, with its focus on processes of cross-cultural circulation and translation, offers a cogent paradigm for conceptualizing Jewish literature beyond linguistic and national boundaries. For this special issue of Prooftexts on Jewish Literature/World Literature, we seek papers that address Jewish literary multilingualism, translation, and circulation. Essays should combine theoretical and methodological concerns with readings of Jewish-language texts to illustrate the productive intersections of Jewish literature with the discourse on world literature. Papers might examine the circulation of a text between different or influences from non-Jewish languages on Jewish-language literature, as well as more indirect cross-cultural and translingual comparison. We invite work on a range of Jewish languages (including Hebrew, , and Ladino) and non-Jewish languages. Of particular interest is new work on lesser-studied Jewish languages such as Judeo- and Judeo-Persian, as well as Jewish literature of regions such as Latin America, North Africa, and Asia. Essays should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. Please contact Allison Schachter ([email protected] ) and Lital Levy ([email protected] ) with questions. Please send your manuscript and abstract to [email protected] by January 8. Indicate the title of the special issue in the subject line.

Citation: Sarah Imhoff. CFP: Prooftexts Jewish Literature/World Literature. H-Judaic. 07-08-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/34373/cfp-prooftexts-jewish-literatureworld-literature Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1