Golem in the Bragança Dynasty: O último suspiro do mouro by Salman Rushdie

The Hebrew legend of the Golem appears in an episode of the novel O último suspiro do mouro, by Indian author Salman Rushdie and acquires new contours. The postmodern novels use and abuse of the conventions of elite and popular literature and intertextual resources. This type of feature, common in R...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Borges, Telma
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2008
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repository:Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/13966
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/13966
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Golem
Pós-modernismo
Salman Rushdie
Postmodernism
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Summary:The Hebrew legend of the Golem appears in an episode of the novel O último suspiro do mouro, by Indian author Salman Rushdie and acquires new contours. The postmodern novels use and abuse of the conventions of elite and popular literature and intertextual resources. This type of feature, common in Rushdie’s novels, acts to address and to subvert the fragmentation of the speeches historiographic metafiction and recognize in a complex network of discourse: “official” cultures and popular.