The Languages of Exile in the Literatures of Al-Andalus
| Autor: | Tomás ESPINO BARRERA |
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| Jazyk: | Catalan; Valencian<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | 1616, Vol 9, Iss 0, Pp 173-195 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0210-7287 2445-2262 |
| DOI: | 10.14201/161620199173195 |
| Popis: | The scholarship on medieval literary multilingualism is mostly focused on a utilitarian notion of language choice which only depends on genre or the type of audience. Languages in this context have little political value and do not necessarily identify a writer with a specific political community. In Al-Andalus, however, the coexistence of Muslims, Jews and Christians suffused the question of language choice with a strong sense of belonging. Loyalty to the sacred language of each religion was transposed to a series of deeply exilic theoretical discourses and literary practices which were very different from the utilitarian outlook of the rest of Europe: an elegiac lament for the loss of Latin, a deep concern about the purity of Arabic far from the great seats of learning in the Middle East, and the efforts of recovering Biblical Hebrew as a poetic language. |
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