Converso's Return

Dalia Kandiyoti is Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

• Introduction. Lost and Found? The Afterlives of Conversion1. Doubles, Disguises, Splits: Conversos in Modern Literature and Thought2. Latinx Sephardism and the Absent Archive: Crypto-Jews and the Transamerican Latinx Imagination3. Return to Sepharad: Blood, Convergences, and Embodied Remnants4. Sephardis' Converso Pasts: The Critical Genealogical Imagination5. Ottoman-Spanish and Jewish-Muslim Entanglements: Conversos in Contemporary Turkish FictionCoda

"Dalia Kandiyoti lucidly traces the history and memory of crypto-Jewishness across historical periods, languages, and nations. Theoretically sophisticated, historically rigorous, and superbly written, The Converso's Return is a stimulating read for anyone interested in how literature makes it possible to reimagine a past fraught with contradictions, absences, and silences."—Tabea Alexa Linhard, author of Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean History "Embedded in a sophisticated theoretical framework and a wide range of historical reference, The Converso's Return brilliantly explores and confronts questions of memory's use and representation. In creating a new literary map based on seemingly disparate texts that actually belong together, Dalia Kandiyoti is ever vigilant to the political implications of all forms of return."—Ammiel Alcalay, author of After Jews and Arabs