A pesquisa sintetiza as diversas linguagens promovidas por Saul Bellow, escritor judeu norte-americano, Prêmio Nobel de Literatura (1976) em seu primeiro romance, Dangling Man. A narrativa é redigida em forma de diário, onde Joseph, o herói, reinterpreta o seu cotidiano em Chicago, enquanto aguarda o desenlace burocrático relativo ao seu engajamento militar. O momento histórico da Segunda Grande Guerra transparece como cenário de fundo e permeia o clima dos relatos de Joseph. A abordagem proposta incursiona no panorama da crítica norte-americana a partir do lançamento do romance em 1944 até o presente, esmiuçando o que veio a se constituir uma nova perspectiva literária e um novo movimento de vanguarda intelectual. Finalmente, o trabalho reflete sobre as diferentes manifestações do judaico ao longo do romance de Bellow. / The research synthesizes the different language styles promoted by Saul Bellow, the American Jewish writer and winner of the Nobel Prize (1976) in his first novel, Dangling Man. The narrative is written in a daily record form, where Joseph, the hero, interprets his daily life in Chicago, while awaiting the outcome of the long bureaucratic process of his enrollment in the army. The historical moment of the II Word War appears as the back scenario, imprinting an atmosphere of suspense in Josephs reports. The research analyses the extensive gamut of American Literary criticism, from the very moment of the publication of the novel in 1944 until nowadays, trying to illuminate what has become a new literary perspective and vanguard trend. Finally, the exposition reflects on the different manifestation of Judaism throughout Bellows novel.

A escrita de Samuel Rawet é formada por peculiaridades que demandam um leitor atento e crítico quanto à forma de abordagem e interpretação do texto, de maneira que suas linhas de força (Waldman, 2004) sejam entrevistas como potencialidades de sentidos. O lugar-comum rawetiano, conceito inevitavelmente impreciso formulado a partir dos contos analisados, mostra ser uma forma de abordagem frutífera e coerente ao texto rawetiano em geral, ao privilegiar elementos textuais e se juntar a outras abordagens à obra de Rawet, trazendo questões como identidade, alteridade, literatura judaica e autoria, dentre outras. Como pontos de partida problematizantes são tomados a figura de Ahasverus em Crônica de um vagabundo, a estrutura aberta e a metalinguagem em Kelevim, o conto dentro do conto em Reinvenção de Lázaro, e o sonho em Sôbolos rios que vão. Algumas dessas questões permeiam mais de um dos contos, como a autoria (Crônica..., Sobolos..., Kelevim). A estrutura aberta de Kelevim, por sua vez, permite análises comparativas com o ensaio-crônica Diário de um candango, sobre o livro de memórias de Marques da Silva, que leva o mesmo título. Ao final, as linhas de força são seguidas ainda mais longe, e arrisca-se uma rápida aproximação com as artes plásticas que conclui este trabalho com uma abertura que atesta a riqueza e validade da obra de Rawet. / The writing of Samuel Rawet consists of peculiarities that demand a careful and critical reader who could approach to and interpretate his writings, in order to realize its \"lines of force\" (Waldman, 2004) as potential paths of meanings. The rawetian commonplace, inevitably imprecise concept formulated from the short stories analyzed, shows a fruitful and coherent approach to rawetian text, privileging the textual elements and joinning to the other approaches to Rawets work, bringing up issues like identity, otherness, Jewish literature and authorship, among others. As controversial themes, I focus on Ahasverus in \"Chronicle of a tramp\", the open structure and metalanguage in \"Kelevim\", the story within the story on \"Reinvention of Lazarus,\" and dream on \"Over the flowing rivers\". Some of these issues goes along more than one story, such as authorship (\"Chronicle\", Over...\",\"Kelevim\"). The open structure of \"Kelevim\", on the other hand, allows comparative analyzes with the chronicle-essay \"Diary of a candango\", about the same-titled memoirs of Marques da Silva. Finally, the lines of foces are followed even further, and I dare a quick approximation to the visual arts that ends this thesis with an aperture that attests the wealthy and valuable works by Rawet.

A escrita de Samuel Rawet é formada por peculiaridades que demandam um leitor atento e crítico quanto à forma de abordagem e interpretação do texto, de maneira que suas linhas de força (Waldman, 2004) sejam entrevistas como potencialidades de sentidos. O lugar-comum rawetiano, conceito inevitavelmente impreciso formulado a partir dos contos analisados, mostra ser uma forma de abordagem frutífera e coerente ao texto rawetiano em geral, ao privilegiar elementos textuais e se juntar a outras abordagens à obra de Rawet, trazendo questões como identidade, alteridade, literatura judaica e autoria, dentre outras. Como pontos de partida problematizantes são tomados a figura de Ahasverus em Crônica de um vagabundo, a estrutura aberta e a metalinguagem em Kelevim, o conto dentro do conto em Reinvenção de Lázaro, e o sonho em Sôbolos rios que vão. Algumas dessas questões permeiam mais de um dos contos, como a autoria (Crônica..., Sobolos..., Kelevim). A estrutura aberta de Kelevim, por sua vez, permite análises comparativas com o ensaio-crônica Diário de um candango, sobre o livro de memórias de Marques da Silva, que leva o mesmo título. Ao final, as linhas de força são seguidas ainda mais longe, e arrisca-se uma rápida aproximação com as artes plásticas que conclui este trabalho com uma abertura que atesta a riqueza e validade da obra de Rawet. / The writing of Samuel Rawet consists of peculiarities that demand a careful and critical reader who could approach to and interpretate his writings, in order to realize its \"lines of force\" (Waldman, 2004) as potential paths of meanings. The rawetian commonplace, inevitably imprecise concept formulated from the short stories analyzed, shows a fruitful and coherent approach to rawetian text, privileging the textual elements and joinning to the other approaches to Rawets work, bringing up issues like identity, otherness, Jewish literature and authorship, among others. As controversial themes, I focus on Ahasverus in \"Chronicle of a tramp\", the open structure and metalanguage in \"Kelevim\", the story within the story on \"Reinvention of Lazarus,\" and dream on \"Over the flowing rivers\". Some of these issues goes along more than one story, such as authorship (\"Chronicle\", Over...\",\"Kelevim\"). The open structure of \"Kelevim\", on the other hand, allows comparative analyzes with the chronicle-essay \"Diary of a candango\", about the same-titled memoirs of Marques da Silva. Finally, the lines of foces are followed even further, and I dare a quick approximation to the visual arts that ends this thesis with an aperture that attests the wealthy and valuable works by Rawet.

The TSol is a Christian composition of late antiquity which narrates the story about how King Solomon built the Temple of God with the aid of demons he subjugated. Comparative analysis between the TSol and Jewish literature of late antiquity (between the closing centuries BCE and the Talmudic era), and the New Testament is primarily to establish any literary dependence and explore the nature of contact between the TSol and these materials; and also to isolate Jewish elements in the TSol. The Jewish materials discussed are the Hebrew Bible, the LXX, Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon, Pseudo-Philo, certain Qumran documents (11 PsApa and the Copper scroll), Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Song of Songs, rabbinic literature, and certain Aramaic incantation texts. My research has shown that parallels do exist between the TSol, the Jewish literature discussed and the New Testament. The parallels between the TSol and the aforementioned literature are twofold: verbal and conceptual. Verbal parallels occur in the form of technical terminology; quotations, allusions and echoes. The second type of parallels appears in the form of motifs, themes, structural elements and ideas. These parallels seem to dominate in my analysis. There is no need to explain the parallels between the TSol and the literature discussed in terms of literary dependence. I have attempted to demonstrate that these parallels in most of the literature are indicative of indirect influence through shared use of the biblical tradition: motifs, stories and themes regarding King Solomon; a common fund of oral tradition(s) regarding Solomon's magical power over demonic world; shared literary language, milieu, and cultural conventions. Moreover, the author of the TSol seems to have recycled Jewish materials pertaining to Solomon and related motifs in his work. Apart from the New Testament, the best case for a direct influence of a Jewish work on the TSol is Tobit.

In my dissertation, I examine the works of six writers (George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Clarice and Elisa Lispector, Evgenia Ginzburg and Vasilii Aksyonov) who did not explore their Jewish identity in their texts and were subsequently left out of the canons of Jewish literature in their respective countries. My goal is to recalibrate the concept of the Jewish canon from the charged notion of identity to a theory of shared thematic material in which the works of hyphenated Jewish writers will be considered under the category of ‘Jewish American, Brazilian, or Russian’ if they share definite attributes. This was a transnational study showing that similar forces were at work not only in one country, but across continents, affecting the sensibilities of Jewish writers in remarkably similar ways. On a larger scale their de-thematized narratives share thematic tropes and belong to a ‘minor, liminal, marginal narrative,’ a narrative which attempted to work within the scope of the master narratives produced by the hegemonic culture. I have claimed that even though these six writers did not thematize identity in their texts, because of the negative political and social situation for the Jew in the first half of the twentieth century in western civilization, this situation and the writers’ own alterity produced similar and overlapping narratives. / text

Submitted by Haroudo Xavier Filho (haroudo.xavierfo@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-05T18:55:03Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Tese_FernandoOliveira_BC.pdf: 1673465 bytes, checksum: 1dd9f324243845201f4505656f28d47e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-05T18:55:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Tese_FernandoOliveira_BC.pdf: 1673465 bytes, checksum: 1dd9f324243845201f4505656f28d47e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-21 / CAPES / Este trabalho tem por objetvo analisar, no âmbito dos Estudos Culturais, três romances do escritor judeu luso-norte-americano Richard Zimler (1956-), nascido em Nova Iorque e naturalizado português em 2002. Esses três romances são do chamado Ciclo Sefárdico ou Sefaradita, que consiste em quatro romances “históricos” inter-dependentes que focam diferentes ramos e gerações de uma família de judeus portugueses, a família Zarco: O último cabalista de Lisboa – The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (1996), Meia-Noite ou o princípio do mundo – Hunting Midnight (2003), Goa ou o guardião da aurora – The Guardian of The Down (2005) e A sétima porta – The Seventh Gate (2007). Desses quatro romances foram selecionados três, que constituem uma Trilogia da Inquisição, pois cobrem um espaço de tempo no qual atuou o Santo Ofício (preliminares e arrefecimento), mas o último é situado durante o surgimento da Shoá (o Holocausto). Assim, a análise dessa trilogia pauta a condição judaica da comunidade sefaradita portuguesa sob as perseguições em diálogo intercultural e transcultural com outras minorias culturais perseguidas: personagens judeus e árabes no primeiro romance da trilogia inquisitorial, judeus e africanos no segundo e judeus e indianos no terceiro. Nesse sentido, cada capítulo de análise se devide em dois blocos. No primeiro bloco, questões de memória, diáspora e identidade cultural são analisadas sob reflexões de Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Roland Walter, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Yosef Yerushalmi, Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Jacques Derrida, Cynthia Ozick, etc., quando são solicitados no percurso analítico; no segundo, na esteira do pensamento de Hana Wirth-Nesher, Yonatan Ratosh, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari, o bi/multilinguismo é analisado como meio de desterritorialização/extraterritorialidade e reterritorialização agenciados por “línguas menores” (hebraico, árabe, boxímane e concani) nas “línguas maiores” (inglês e português) nas quais os romances da trilogia são escritos, agenciamento que o autor desta tese vê como projeto literário do escritor Richard Zimler para consolidar sua Diasporic Citizenship (Cidadania Diaspórica), conceito usado a partir de Michel Laguerre. Consolidação que faz de Richard Zimler, também a partir do conceito diaspórico de literatura judaica, pertencer transnacionalmente a ambas as literaturas em que publica, embora escreva apenas em inglês: a norte-americana e a portuguesa / This work aims to examine, within Cultural Studies, three novels of the Jewish Portuguese-American writer Richard Zimler (1956-), born in New York and naturalized Portuguese in 2002. These three novels are the so-called Sephardic or Sepharadic Cycle, consisting of four novels "historical" inter-dependent that focus on different branches and generations of a family of Portuguese Jews, the Zarco family: The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon – O último cabalista de Lisboa (1996), Hunting Midnight – Meia-Noite ou o princípio do mundo (2003), The Guardian of The Down – Goa ou o guardião da aurora (2005) and The Seventh Gate – A Sétima Porta (2007). Three of these four novels were selected, which make up a Trilogy of the Inquisition, because they cover a span of time in which acted the Holy Office (preliminary and cooling), but The Seventh Gate is situated in the emergence of the Shoah (the Holocaust). Thus, the analysis of this trilogy focus the Jewishness of the Portuguese Sephardic community under persecution in intercultural and cross-cultural dialogue with other persecuted cultural minorities (through its characters): Jews and Arabs in the first novel of the Trilogy Inquisition, Jews and Africans in the second novel and Jews and Indians in the third novel. In this sense each analytical chapter is devided into two blocks. In the first block, memory issues, diaspora and cultural identity are analyzed under reflections of Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Roland Walter, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Yosef Yerushalmi, Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Jacques Derrida, Cynthia Ozick, for example, when they are asked for the analytical route; the second one, following the thought of Hana Wirth-Nesher, Yonatan Ratosh, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the bi/multilingualism is seen as a means of desterritorialization/extraterritoriality and reterritorialization agenciaded by "minor languages" (Hebrew, Arabic, Bushmen and Konkani) whitin "major languages" (English and Portuguese) in which the trilogy of novels are written, agency that the author of this thesis see as a Richard Zimler's literary project to consolidate his Diasporic Citizenship, concept by Michel Laguerre. Its a consolidation that makes Richard Zimler (also from the concept of diasporic Jewish Literature), transnationally belong to both literatures he publishes (although he writes only in English): the American and Portuguese literatures.

A pesquisa sintetiza as diversas linguagens promovidas por Saul Bellow, escritor judeu norte-americano, Prêmio Nobel de Literatura (1976) em seu primeiro romance, Dangling Man. A narrativa é redigida em forma de diário, onde Joseph, o herói, reinterpreta o seu cotidiano em Chicago, enquanto aguarda o desenlace burocrático relativo ao seu engajamento militar. O momento histórico da Segunda Grande Guerra transparece como cenário de fundo e permeia o clima dos relatos de Joseph. A abordagem proposta incursiona no panorama da crítica norte-americana a partir do lançamento do romance em 1944 até o presente, esmiuçando o que veio a se constituir uma nova perspectiva literária e um novo movimento de vanguarda intelectual. Finalmente, o trabalho reflete sobre as diferentes manifestações do judaico ao longo do romance de Bellow. / The research synthesizes the different language styles promoted by Saul Bellow, the American Jewish writer and winner of the Nobel Prize (1976) in his first novel, Dangling Man. The narrative is written in a daily record form, where Joseph, the hero, interprets his daily life in Chicago, while awaiting the outcome of the long bureaucratic process of his enrollment in the army. The historical moment of the II Word War appears as the back scenario, imprinting an atmosphere of suspense in Josephs reports. The research analyses the extensive gamut of American Literary criticism, from the very moment of the publication of the novel in 1944 until nowadays, trying to illuminate what has become a new literary perspective and vanguard trend. Finally, the exposition reflects on the different manifestation of Judaism throughout Bellows novel.

Nous nous proposons dans cette étude d’analyser l’œuvre narrative, théâtrale et théorique de l’écrivain italien Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) au travers de la notion d’insignifiance. Tout en mettant en évidence les ressemblances et les divergences entre ce corpus et des courants littéraires du XXe siècle qui se sont interrogés sur la question du sens de l’œuvre et du monde tels que l’Absurde et le Nouveau Roman, nous cernerons ce que recouvre d’un point de vue axiologique et d’un point de vue sémantique la notion d’insignifiance.Ce corpus produit un effet d’insignifiance grâce à un style et des procédés d’écriture qui tendent à niveler le signifiant et l’insignifiant. Notre objectif principal est de montrer que d’un point de vue axiologique, l’œuvre ne valorise pas l’insignifiant et le petit au détriment du signifiant et du grand. Grâce à « l’understatement », l’auteur a dissimulé le signifiant (l’Histoire et Dieu) qui réémerge, non seulement intentionnellement de l’écriture, à travers des réseaux de symboles et de récurrences, mais aussi inconsciemment grâce au rythme et à la musicalité spécifiques de ce style. Dans ce système où tout fait sens, le lecteur est appelé à amplifier la portée de ce qui est dit et à expliciter les nombreux indices et références intertextuelles. Par ailleurs, si Ginzburg vise la représentation d’un réel au sein duquel tout aurait une importance égale, c’est parce que signifiant et insignifiant s’équivalent au sein d’une approche totalisatrice du réel qui relève d’une dimension métaphysique influencée par la psychanalyse jungienne et le mysticisme juif. / Comparing and contrasting Ginzburg's works with 20th century literary trends that broached the meaning of the world and of literature itself, such as Absurdism and the Nouveau Roman, we aim to identify the implications of insignificance from an axiological and a semantic viewpoint.Ginzburg's works create an impression of insignificance using writing style and specific techniques to give the significant and insignificant equal weight. Our main purpose is to show that, from an axiological viewpoint, Ginzburg's works do not promote the small or insignificant at the expense of the large and significant. The author uses understatement to downplay the significant (History, God), then lets it re-emerge, both intentionally through written networks of symbols and recurrences, and subconsciously through the rhythm and musicality of her specific writing style. In a context where everything has a meaning, readers are required to amplify the scope of the written word and interpret the manifold signs and inter-textual references. Indeed, Ginzburg aims to represent a reality where everything has equal importance, precisely because the significant and insignificant are equal when reality is portrayed from a totalising perspective that is inspired by metaphysical cons! iderations and influenced by Jungian psychoanalysis and Jewish mysticism.

This project focuses on the autofictional family novels, crafted from the mid-1970s onwards through the early 2000s in French and Serbian by the women writers of Jewish Sephardi origin, born in the French-ruled Maghreb (Annie Cohen, Annie Fitoussi, Nine Moati, Gisèle Halimi) and ex-Yugoslavia (Frida Filipović and Gordana Kuić), respectively. It is situated at the many intersections of Slavic, Jewish, Gender, and Memory Studies. Through the lens of feminist and decolonizing interpretive strategies, I analyze and connect these texts as a translingual and largely unknown archive of Sephardi women’s contemporary writing. Applying the methodological took-kit of Comparative Literature, I unsettle and frustrate a narrowly conceptualized—monolingual and mono-ethnic—vision of literary production. This emerging archive carves out a space in which the uniqueness and difference—ethno-cultural and gender, alike—of Sephardi women’s lived experiences throughout the 20th century becomes foregrounded in the full complexity of their poetics against the politics of erasure, silencing, invisibilization, and oblivion.  In this connective and comparative thesis, I re-discover the corpus as a transmediterranean feminist project, which destabilizes the notion of literary canon and articulates its anti-ethnocentric instantiations. Additionally, I tease out Sephardi identity as a tenuous and performative phenomenon, produced in and through the act of writing by the generation of Sephardi daughters, as they grapple with ambiguous and provocative maternal legacies. Language or, more precisely, languages themselves—Serbian and French, traversed, interspersed with, if not interrupted by Judeo-Spanish/Djudezmo, Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic—serve as the crucial poetic means of this identity performance. Finally, the corpus under my scrutiny performs what Marianne Hirsch deems postmemorial work, in that it harbors and preserves the memories of the foremothers in the narrative flow of these autofictional matrifocal family novels, which are, in turn, to be remembered by the reader.

Literary tales about the lives and vicissitudes of officials serving in the courts of powerful kings are attested throughout the writings of the ancient Near East. Such ‘court tales’ were a popular literary form during the Jewish Second Temple period (515 BCE-70 CE). With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of previously unknown ancient Jewish court tales was discovered, along with others preserved in their original languages. The discovery of these texts has expanded our corpus of extant Jewish court tales. Research on these texts has yet to be systematically integrated into broader analyses of the Jewish court tales. This dissertation addresses this desideratum and integrates the court tale evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls into research on the already extant Jewish court tales, with a focus on the themes of punishment, exile, and restoration. Chapter One outlines the history of scholarship on the Jewish court tales. Chapter Two examines the literary themes and concerns of other ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean court tale traditions. Chapters Three and Four analyze the themes of punishment, exile, and restoration within the Jewish court tales, and highlight their uniqueness to the Jewish tales. Chapter Five discusses the development and decline of the Jewish court tales. In doing this, I demonstrate that a major purpose of the Jewish adoption of the court tale tradition was to upend earlier convictions that exilic life was solely a form of punishment, with the purpose of demonstrating the benefits of exilic life and God’s sovereignty over foreign political actors. My examination of the court tales contributes to discussions about the origins of Jewish apocalyptic literature, with the court tales employing eschatological terminology to address the theme of restoration. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)