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Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Queen of the Conversas
Author: Colbert Cairns Emily
Language: EnglishSubjects for Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora:
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Purim; Megillah; Castilian; Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi; Crypto-Jews
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This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures of early modern Europe, authored as a symbol of conformity as well as resistance. At once a queen and minority figure under threat, for a changing Iberian and broader European landscape, Esther was compelling and relatable precisely because of her hybridity. She was an early modern globetrotter and border transgressor. Emily Colbert Cairns analyzes the many retellings of the biblical heroine that were composed in a turbulent early modern Europe. These narratives reveal national undercurrents where religious identity was transitional and fluid, thus problematizing the fixed notion of national identity within a particular geographic location. This volume instead proposes a model of a Sephardic nationality that existed beyond geographical borders.
1. Introduction
2. Esther In Iberia & Constructing A Catholic Nation Upon The Judeo-Christian Model
3. A Jewish Heroine In Early Modern Spain
4. Esther In The Portuguese Nation
5. Sisters In The Law Of Moses
6. Conclusion.
Emily Colbert Cairns is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Salve Regina University. She has published on converso and crypto-Jewish identity in the early modern period in eHumanista, Chasqui, Cervantes Journal, and Hispanófila.
Interdisciplinary: biblical, historical, and gender studies
First comparative study of Esther texts form this period
Builds on studies of Esther texts from other times and places
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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