Remembering the 'Italian' Jewish homes of Libya
Gender and Transcultural Memory (1967-2013)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Spadaro (0000-0002-7671-7935, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 811-833 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2018.1436647 |
| OpenAlex | W2792169376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article features memories of home and domestic culture of Jewish men and women displaced from Libya to Italy (the former colonial metropole), Israel and the UK after 1967. Adopting a transcultural perspective, the article exposes how ideas of Jewish, Italian and Arab culture and their gendered and racialized representations are negotiated by the interviewees. Developing an interdisciplinary method for the reading of six interviews, my aim is to offer two interrelated contributions. Firstly, to shed light on sites of transcultural experience marginalised by mainstream narratives of history, namely Jewish homes in Libya and Italy from the eve of the Italian occupation to the present. The article highlights in particular how these memories are conveyed through food and language. Secondly, by examining how memories of homes of the past emerge in the interviews, the article foregrounds the role of emotions, power and agency in contemporary mnemonic processes, stressing the gendering dimension of memory
Agency (philosophy · Art · Colonialism · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Memory work · Mnemonic · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology
Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory
Change within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya.
Memory and Utopia
Women in Transnational History
Arabs of the Jewish Faith
Transnational Memory
Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa
Italy's Many Diasporas
The Generation of Postmemory
A companion to cultural memory studies
The Middle Eastern Shift and Provincializing Zionism
Travelling Memory
Oriental by Design
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
Étrangers sans rémission » ? Être juif d'Égypte
Composer les mémoires et recomposer les identités
Jewish Life in Muslim Libya
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |