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1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Jewish Latin American writers and collective memory / Leonardo Senkman -- Resonances of the Yiddishkeit tradition in the contemporary Brazilian narrative / Robert DiAntonio -- Urban life and Jewish memory in the tales of Moacyr Scliar and Nora Glickman / Murray Baumgarten -- The complex roses of Jerusalem : the theme of Israel in Argentinian Jewish poetry / Florinda Goldberg -- Jacobo Fijman : Jewish poet? / Naomi Lindstrom -- Matrimony and religious conflict : Bernardo Gravier's El hijo del rabino / David William Foster -- Jewish identity, pluralism, and survival : Feierstein's Mestizo as minority discourse / Edna Aizenberg -- Metaphors of disorder and displacement in Mil años, un dia by Ricardo Halac / Nora Glickman -- Noah in the Pampas : syncretism in Goloboff's Criador de palomas / Lois Barr -- Marcos Aguinis : shifting lines of difference between the other and the self / Judith Morganroth Schneider -- Lispector's rethinking of biblical and mystical discourse / Flora Schiminovich -- Aspects of the Jewish presence in the Brazilian narrative : the "crypto-Jews" / Regina Igel -- Ethnic identity in the plays of Sabina Berman / Sandra M. Cypess -- Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro : (re)creating the subject / Edward H. Friedman -- Visions of Esther Seligson / Ilan Stavans -- The family, the world : the poetry of José Kozer / Jacobo Sefamí -- Samuel Rovinski and the dual identity / Mario A. Rojas |
| Summary |
Annotation Opening a door on a little known aspect of the diaspora, explores the history of Latin American Jewish writing, its gradual disappearance through assimilation and acculturation, and its contribution to Latin American literature in general. The 17 essays focus on selected writers, emphasizing women writers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Jews in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Jews in literature
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Latin American literature
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Latin American literature -- Jewish authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DiAntonio, Robert E., 1941-
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Glickman, Nora
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| ISBN |
0585063591 |
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9780585063591 |
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9780791415092 |
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0791415090 |
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9780791415108 |
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0791415104 |
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9781438401133 |
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1438401132 |
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