{"product_id":"the-conversos-return-dalia-kandiyoti-9781503612297","title":"The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. \u003ci\u003eThe Converso's Return\u003c\/i\u003e explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in \u003ci\u003econverso\u003c\/i\u003e and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, \u003ci\u003econverso\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Converso's Return\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how the \u003ci\u003econverso\u003c\/i\u003e narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalia Kandiyoti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503612295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503612297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Dalia Kandiyoti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065660387583,"sku":"9781503612297","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_903fffc6-adbd-4129-8129-853ac5398080.jpg?v=1768676437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-conversos-return-dalia-kandiyoti-9781503612297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}