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Searching for Home: Henry Roth's Spanish American Turn

Searching for Home: Henry Roth's Spanish American Turn This essay uncovers Henry Roth's unpublished–and largely forgotten–"marrano" manuscripts. Drafts of a novel and a play tell the story of a converso who escapes the Spanish Inquisition by posing as a conquistador. I argue both that Roth's engagement with Jewish Spanish America sheds light on his late-in-life Zionism, and also that his manuscripts provide a route into the broader function of Spain and Spanish America in the Jewish American imaginary. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Searching for Home: Henry Roth's Spanish American Turn

Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 107 (3) – Sep 1, 2017

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Abstract

This essay uncovers Henry Roth's unpublished–and largely forgotten–"marrano" manuscripts. Drafts of a novel and a play tell the story of a converso who escapes the Spanish Inquisition by posing as a conquistador. I argue both that Roth's engagement with Jewish Spanish America sheds light on his late-in-life Zionism, and also that his manuscripts provide a route into the broader function of Spain and Spanish America in the Jewish American imaginary.

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Jewish Quarterly ReviewUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Sep 1, 2017

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