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- Title
Sefardismo y ficción fundacional: La hija del judío de Justo Sierra O’Reilly.
- Authors
PALOMARES SALAS, CLAUDIO
- Abstract
La hija del judío (1848), Mexico’s first historical novel, was an attempt to rewrite the colonial past of the Yucatan in order to provide a foundational text for the ephemeral Republic of Yucatan (1841–1848). Sierra O’Reilly decided to ignore the Indigenous people of the peninsula and instead took the Jewish subject as the ‘other’ of his story. This choice followed a tradition of European historical novels that took the expulsion of Sephardic Jews from Spain in the fifteenth century as a comparative model to define the national attitude towards minorities. In this essay, I explain how La hija del judío uses the Spanish Jew as a way to reimagine the national myth and reinterpret the peninsula’s history in order to create a national utopia that excluded Jews.
- Subjects
YUCATAN (Mexico : State); LA hija del judio (Book); SIERRA O'Reilly, Justo; MEXICAN historical fiction; JEWS in literature; SPANISH Jews; NATIONALISM in literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2017, Vol 94, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2017.14