{"title":"Imagining Cosmopolitanism, Conviviality, and Coexistence in World Literature: Jews, Muslims, Language, and Enchantment in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat","authors":"D. Kandiyoti","doi":"10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.36.1-2.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyzes Joann Sfar's Rabbi's Cat and Rabbi's Cat 2 through the concepts of conviviality and world literature, drawing on the scholarship of Paul Gilroy and Pheng Cheah. I argue that Sfar offers through a decolonial lens a \"world literature\" with a normative world-making vision (Cheah) that asserts specific convivialities of what is deemed mutually exclusive under colonialism and in its aftermath, such as Jew and Muslim; native, diasporic, and colonial languages; and the rational-secular and \"the enchanted.\"","PeriodicalId":43444,"journal":{"name":"PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"290 1","pages":"53 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.36.1-2.03","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay analyzes Joann Sfar's Rabbi's Cat and Rabbi's Cat 2 through the concepts of conviviality and world literature, drawing on the scholarship of Paul Gilroy and Pheng Cheah. I argue that Sfar offers through a decolonial lens a "world literature" with a normative world-making vision (Cheah) that asserts specific convivialities of what is deemed mutually exclusive under colonialism and in its aftermath, such as Jew and Muslim; native, diasporic, and colonial languages; and the rational-secular and "the enchanted."
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For sixteen years, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History has brought to the study of Jewish literature, in its many guises and periods, new methods of study and a new wholeness of approach. A unique exchange has taken place between Israeli and American scholars, as more work from Israelis has appeared in the journal. Prooftexts" thematic issues have made important contributions to the field.
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