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Abstract
Based upon a corpus of literary texts by Jewish authors born, or descendants of families that lived in North Africa and Egypt and that in the 1950s and 1960s migrated to Israel, France or Italy, the essay looks at nostalgia as a foundational trope in the Mediterranean Jewish historical imagination. Nostalgia is analyzed as a literary chronotope, that allows these writers to come to terms with a complex and ambivalent past while, at the same time, reflecting upon its repercussions on the postcolonial present and future. What comes out is an original archive of memories travelling across the Mediterranean, that while shedding light on the ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial times, reflects on the possibilities of coexistence and reconciliation – or, on the other hand, on the cleavages – that still exist between Jews and Arabs, Europe and North Africa, the Diaspora and Israel.
Résumé
En se basant sur un corpus de textes littéraires d’auteurs juifs nés ou de descendants de familles ayant vécu en Afrique du Nord et en Egypte et ayant migré vers Israël, la France ou l’Italie dans les années 1950 et 1960, cet article approche la nostalgie comme un trope fondamental dans l’imagination historique juive méditerranéenne. La nostalgie est analysée comme un chronotope littéraire qui permet à ces écrivains de se confronter à un passé complexe et ambivalent tout en réfléchissant à ses répercussions sur le présent et l’avenir postcoloniaux. Ce qui en ressort est une archive originale de mémoires voyageant à travers la Méditerranée qui, tout en éclairant les ruptures et les continuités entre l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale, réfléchit aux possibilités de coexistence et de réconciliation - ou, au contraire, aux clivages existent encore entre Juifs et Arabes, Europe et Afrique du Nord, la Diaspora et Israël.
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