Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures; Transfer, Mediality and Situativity
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 121-137
Keywords:
Quixote, In literature
;
Schlemiels in literature
;
Fictitious characters
;
European literature History and criticism
;
European literature Translations into Hebrew
;
History and criticism
;
European literature Translations into Yiddish
;
History and criticism
;
Yiddish literature History and criticism
;
Sociolinguistics
Abstract:
Originating in different literary traditions and cultural contexts, the European-Christian-Jewish-Muslim figure of ‘Don Quijote’ and the Jewish-European figures of ‘Schlemiel’ and ‘Schelm’ show a relation of both closeness and distance in their interactions. Created especially in times of societal and cultural upheaval, as for instance in the fault zones of modernity, they mark the voice of resistance, of non-conformity, of critical enquiry, the voice of a stranger through irony and ambivalence. Beyond the lingual and cultural “divides” of Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian or Polish these literary figures, as I will argue in this chapter, design by various processes of reception, be they ideational or translational, a zone of encounter and transformation.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004435285_007
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