SOCIAL SEMIOTICS AND MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN FICTION

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Editor Chefe: Marcelo Pereira Lima
Início Publicação: 31/12/2007
Periodicidade: Semestral
Área de Estudo: História

SOCIAL SEMIOTICS AND MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN FICTION

Ano: 2008 | Volume: 1 | Número: 1
Autores: Ramos, Aline Medeiros
Autor Correspondente: Marcelo Pereira Lima | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: SOCIAL SEMIOTICS; MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN FICTION

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Resumo Inglês:

Despite being largely influenced by Israeli literature, contemporary Jewish American writers rarely draw upon Sephardic culture. This indicates a detachment from questions like the political ones Israeli writers emphasize, and points towards a tendency to focus on the search for identity in a new country. The aim of this paper is to take a semiotic approach in examining this phenomenon from the standpoint of the Hebraism of American culture. I will take into account concepts of social semiotics to expand the analysis of discursive praxis, focusing also on extra and pre-textual elements. This will ultimately lead us to matters of memory, immigration, filiation and search for a national and cultural identity, which, in turn, must be seen from a historical viewpoint that cannot be set apart from discourse analysis itself.