Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity - Hardcover

by Judith Roumani (Author)

This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.

Author Biography

Judith Roumani is founder and director of the Jewish Institute of Pitigliano.