Searching for Home: Henry Roth's Spanish American Turn
This essay uncovers Henry Roth's unpublished–and largely forgotten–"marrano" manuscripts. Drafts of a novel and a play tell the story of a converso who escapes the Spanish Inquisition by posing as a conquistador. I argue both that Roth's engagement with Jewish Spanish America she...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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| In: |
The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2017, Volume: 107, Issue: 3, Pages: 354-377 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Zionism B Immigration B Diaspora B Mexico B Henry Roth B Israel B Mercy of a Rude Stream B Spain B Marrano |
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| Summary: | This essay uncovers Henry Roth's unpublished–and largely forgotten–"marrano" manuscripts. Drafts of a novel and a play tell the story of a converso who escapes the Spanish Inquisition by posing as a conquistador. I argue both that Roth's engagement with Jewish Spanish America sheds light on his late-in-life Zionism, and also that his manuscripts provide a route into the broader function of Spain and Spanish America in the Jewish American imaginary. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2017.0018 |
