David Wacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1010370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wacks |
| SIGNATURE | WACKS D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jewish Spain
Reviewed by: Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory by Tabea Linhard David Wacks Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230 pp. Jewish Spain is a study of how various forms of cultural production in modern Spain represent and deploy the Jewish experience in Spain. Linhard is one of a group of scholars taking a much-awaited new look at the Jewish imaginary in modern Spain, who came together i…
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores’s conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relatio…
Covert Gestures
Review of Barletta, Vincent. Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Originally published in Hispania 89.1 (2006): 50-52
The Performativity of Ibn Al-Muqaffa 'S Kalīla Wa-Dimna and Al-Maqāmāt Al-Luzūmiyya of Al-Saraqustī
While not written for performance, works of medieval Arabic literature such as Ibn al-Muqaffa''s Kalīla wa-Dimna and al-Saraqustī's al-Maqāmāt al-luzūmiyya are extremely performative in nature, in that their structure is determined by representation of acts of performance. This is achieved either explicitly, by describing the performer or storyteller in the act of performing, or implicitly, by citing a performance carried out as part of a chain o…
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The Performativity of Ibn Al-Muqaffa 'S Kalīla Wa-Dimna and Al-Maqāmāt Al-Luzūmiyya of Al-Saraqustī
While not written for performance, works of medieval Arabic literature such as Ibn al-Muqaffa''s Kalīla wa-Dimna and al-Saraqustī's al-Maqāmāt al-luzūmiyya are extremely performative in nature, in that their structure is determined by representation of acts of performance. This is achieved either explicitly, by describing the performer or storyteller in the act of performing, or implicitly, by citing a performance carried out as part of a chain o…
Covert Gestures
Review of Barletta, Vincent. Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Originally published in Hispania 89.1 (2006): 50-52
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores’s conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relatio…
Jewish Spain
Reviewed by: Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory by Tabea Linhard David Wacks Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230 pp. Jewish Spain is a study of how various forms of cultural production in modern Spain represent and deploy the Jewish experience in Spain. Linhard is one of a group of scholars taking a much-awaited new look at the Jewish imaginary in modern Spain, who came together i…
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