1st Edition
Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492–1923
Introduction
João Teles e Cunha and José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
Part I Across Boundaries and Marginal Worlds
1. Accidental Tourists and Reverse Homesickness in Portuguese Travelogues on the Holy Land (1555–1615)
João Teles e Cunha
2. The Feeling of Being Uprooted and the Idealization of the Native Country in the Discourse of the Moroccan Community Living in Portugal Around 1550, as Detected in Some Inquisitorial Sources
Ahmed Boucharb
3. Between the Two Empires: Emphasis on Homesickness in Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1555–1562)
Talha Kaan Ünlü
4. Far Away from Home in Morocco: A Contribution to the Study of the Prisoners of Ksar el-Kebir Battle
Edite Martins Alberto and Luís Costa e Sousa
5. The Renegades Journey: From Christianity to Islam and Back
Tiago Machado de Castro
6. Portuguese Captives in Algiers: Between Pain and Pleasure Far from Home (1778–1812)
António Jorge Afonso
Part II Amidst Exile and Diasporas
7. Away from Home: Merchant Diasporas Between the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
Marília dos Santos Lopes
8. Jews of Portugal in Exile and Saudade (16th–17th Centuries)
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
9. Nostalgia and Death: Cases from Diaspora Orthodox Communities (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Konstantinos Giakoumis
Part III Literary Expressions and Terminology
10. The Epic Discourse as an Expression of "Homesickness" for a Mediterranean World: Jerónimo Corte-Real and the Battle of Lepanto
Ana Paula Avelar
11. Silence and Nostalgia in Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Poetry
Jacopo Masi
12. “Irresistible and Corrosive Nostalgia” in the Epistolography of Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1913–1929)
Maria da Graça A. Mateus Ventura
13. Saudade as a Mythological Figure: Adamastor or the Narrative of a Redeeming Solitude
Mafalda Sofia Borges Soares
Part IV Heritage, Identity, and Memory
14. Judeo-Spanish Cancioneros in the Mediterranean and the Traceability of Home (1761–1913)
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
15. Homesickness Clubs: Collective Discourses of Nostalgia for the Homeland: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, 1835–1930
María Zozaya-Montes
16. The Various Meanings of “Saudade” in the Context of Migrations Between Brazil and Japan
Pauline Cherrier
Biography
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His main area of interest is Jewish Studies, in which he has published more than 60 articles and 4 books.
João Teles e Cunha is an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His fields of interest are trade, society, and culture of South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern age, having published several articles and books on the subject.
