@inbook{7bbbcfe67e314fda9f6c03c2d970c1ed,
title = "Sir Salman Rushdie Sails for India and Rediscovers Spain: Postmodern Constructions of Sepharad",
abstract = "This chapter discusses postmodern and postcolonial configurations of Sepharad, with an emphasis on revisions of Spanish Jewish history that question epistemologies of history rather than try to recover an authentic, rich heritage. Such counternarratives recast cultural history and the geopolitical lines of a Sephardic world that encompasses India, North Africa, and the Iberian peninsula. In other words, they reimagine history from a marginal, subaltern perspective and assume new transnational options for diaspora identities. This chapter examines novels and polemical narratives that adopt a political and ideological agenda founded on Sepharad in order to locate a shared environment for Jews and Arabs in a mythical world. These discursive moves challenge Eurocentricism and national {\textquotedblleft}exclusivity,{\textquotedblright} especially Zionism.",
keywords = "Indian literature, English language literature, 1900-1999, Rushdie, Salman (1947-), The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), novel, Sephardic Jewish experience, hybridity, postcolonialism",
author = "Efraim Sicher",
year = "2012",
month = apr,
doi = "10.11126/stanford/9780804777469.003.0012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780804777469",
series = "Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture",
publisher = "Stanford University Press",
pages = "256--273",
editor = "Yael Halevi-Wise",
booktitle = "Sephardism",
}