De ida y vuelta: Myriam Moscona entre el pasado búlgaro-sefardí y el presente mexicano

Abstract

This article studies the Sephardic sphere in the work of Myriam Moscona (Mexico City, 1955). It begins with an overview of this writer’s works, and then concentrates on two of her fundamental books on the subject: Tela de sevoya (2012) and Ansina (2015). The idea of displacement or wandering is explored not only as a family motive but also as the engine that nurtures the various explorations that Moscona has carried out throughout her oeuvre. Tela de sevoya is analyzed as a multivalent novel in which dispossession, loss, death, distress, and diaspora are explored, both as autobiographical reflections and in the broader scope of Judeo-Spanish. Ansina’s poems demystify the Sephardic nostalgic cliché to place themselves into the contemporaneity of Mexican poetry, through irony, humor and criticism of writing itself.

Keywords

• myriam moscona
• sephardic literature
• judeo spanish
• tela de sovoya
• ansina