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David Wacks deposited Review of Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230pp. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
Review of Tabea Linhard’s ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory’ (2016): “These essays are nothing short of a manifesto of new Spanish Jewish cultural studies, an area that has long been wanting a champion. In this sense, Jewish Spain is an exciting departure in the study of the Jewish experience and memory in modern Spain.”
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David Wacks started the topic [essay] "An interstitial history of Medieval Iberian poetry" in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues, here’s a link to a self-archived author’s postprint (Open Access) version of my contribution to the recently published The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (eds. Javier Múñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado).
For purposes of academic publication, please cite publisher’s version of record: Wacks, David A. “An Inter…[Read more]
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David Wacks replied to the topic Rough equivalent of Zinn's 'People's History' for Medieval Iberia? in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDo they like Reilly? Do you?
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David Wacks started the topic Rough equivalent of Zinn's 'People's History' for Medieval Iberia? in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWhat would you assign in English to give 100-level gen ed students a broad yet critical (think Howard Zinn’s People’s History) overview of medieval Iberian cultural history? I have good material for Latin America and Modern Spain, but nothing for premodernity (or whatever you want to call it). Thanks! David
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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David A. Wacks posted an update on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
Colleague @gkaplan Gregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments Against the Christian Faith in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’ http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980105-arguments-against-the-christian-religion-in-amsterdam-by-saul-levi-morteira-spinoza-s-rabbi.html?mc_cid=d31a4051a6&mc_eid=76b4013318#.WIs-B1SnyK0.facebook
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 9 years agoGregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’
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