Danny Luzon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5703614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danny Luzon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danny |
| FAMILY NAME | Luzon |
| SIGNATURE | LUZON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3778-1459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exiled from Exile Itself”
This essay studies how Jewish creators of television comedy negotiate the tension between Jewish white privilege and inherited memories of social precarity by shaping a Jewish-ly coded vernacular. Specifically, I explore the multilingual idioms designed by Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, and Rachel Bloom in the sitcoms Broad City and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I argue that their feminist language design generates various afterlives for a migratory diaspor…
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”
This article explores the American Yiddish theater’s creative reworkings of William Shakespeare, a practice epitomized by the presumed parodic dictum “translated and improved” (fartaytsht un farbessert). It argues that this theater’s translational politics of chutzpah strives to breach fixed literary and familial lineages by treating the high-canonical Anglo text as a porous space, open to endless cultural attachments. Through revisionary acts of…
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Exiled from Exile Itself”
This essay studies how Jewish creators of television comedy negotiate the tension between Jewish white privilege and inherited memories of social precarity by shaping a Jewish-ly coded vernacular. Specifically, I explore the multilingual idioms designed by Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, and Rachel Bloom in the sitcoms Broad City and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I argue that their feminist language design generates various afterlives for a migratory diaspor…
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”
This article explores the American Yiddish theater’s creative reworkings of William Shakespeare, a practice epitomized by the presumed parodic dictum “translated and improved” (fartaytsht un farbessert). It argues that this theater’s translational politics of chutzpah strives to breach fixed literary and familial lineages by treating the high-canonical Anglo text as a porous space, open to endless cultural attachments. Through revisionary acts of…
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (1 work)