Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492-1923

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73680-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the “Middle Sea” perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.

The sixteen chapters in this book span the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, and musicology to explore and revisit old and new subjects including diasporas, renegades, expatriates, travelogues, testaments, inquisitorial processes, songbooks, movies, and photos. Together, they provide a comprehensive picture of homesickness across states, cultures, religions, and people, furthering understanding of how individuals, communities, and nations created and expressed images, ideas, and emotions on this subject. Though centered around the Mediterranean, this volume also studies the impact of homesickness in a larger geography touched by the Iberian empires.

This important contribution to the history of emotions offers studies on subjects seldom available in the English-speaking world and will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists alike.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tavim, José Alberto Rodrigues Da Silva

Teles E Cunha, João

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Across Boundaries and Marginal Worlds  1. Accidental Tourists and Reverse Homesickness in Portuguese Travelogues on the Holy Land (1555–1615)  2. The Feeling of Being Uprooted and the Idealization of the Native Country in the Discourse of the Moroccan Community Living in Portugal Around 1550, as Detected in Some Inquisitorial Sources  3. Between the Two Empires: Emphasis on Homesickness in Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1555–1562)  4. Far Away from Home in Morocco: A Contribution to the Study of the Prisoners of Ksar el-Kebir Battle  5. The Renegades Journey: From Christianity to Islam and Back  6. Portuguese Captives in Algiers: Between Pain and Pleasure Far from Home (1778–1812)  Part 2: Amidst Exile and Diasporas  7. Away from Home: Merchant Diasporas Between the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)  8. Jews of Portugal in Exile and Saudade (XVI-XVII Centuries)  9. Nostalgia and Death: Cases from Diaspora Orthodox Communities (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)  Part 3: Literary Expressions and Terminology  10. The Epic Discourse as an Expression of "Homesickness" for a Mediterranean World: Jerónimo Corte-Real and the Battle of Lepanto  11. Silence and Nostalgia in Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Poetry  12. “Irresistible and Corrosive Nostalgia” in the Epistolography of Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1913–1929)  13. Saudade as a Mythological Figure: Adamastor or the Narrative of a Redeeming Solitude  Part 4: Heritage, Identity, and Memory  14. Judeo-Spanish Cancioneros in the Mediterranean and the Traceability of Home (1761–1913)  15. Homesickness Clubs: Collective Discourses of Nostalgia for the Homeland: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, 1835–1930  16. The Various Meanings of “Saudade” in the Context of Migrations Between Brazil and Japan

Über Autor(innen)

José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His main area of interest is Jewish Studies, in which he has published more than 60 articles and 4 books.

João Teles e Cunha is an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His fields of interest are trade, society, and culture of South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern age, having published several articles and books on the subject.