Francophone Sephardic Fiction

This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.

Judith Roumani is founder and director of the Jewish Institute of Pitigliano.

Introduction: Migratory Writing and the Novel Chapter 1: From Orality to Writing: Storytelling in Sephardic Literature Chapter 2: The Portable Homeland: Ryvel and Koskas Chapter 3: The End of Symbiosis: Sephardic Novelists and the Sudden Ruptures of History Chapter 4: Migratory writing by Bensoussan (Algeria/France) , Bouganim (Morocco/Israel), Kayat (Tunisia/Sweden) Chapter 5: Modernity and Beyond Chapter 6: A Return into History Conclusions