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Author Ran, Amalia

Title Made of Shores : Rethinking Identities, Interpreting the Past in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Fiction
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. On Dialoguing with History, Alternative Pasts, and the Archives; Chapter 2. Other Alternative Histories; Chapter 3. On Spatial Distances, Nostalgia, and the Diasporic Notion; Chapter 4. On Other Differences: The Personal Perspective Rev; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary This book offers to rethink identities within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction by dealing with the transforming notion of Jewishness and of national identity in Argentina. It focuses on the dialogue (and confrontation) between the narrative text and the imaginary national space it questions. By reviewing the new material conditions within Argentina and its diasporic communities, this book imposes a new reflection on what Judeo-Argentinean fiction is all about. It reflects on the shifting notion of identity, abandoning traditional definitions, in order to rather analyze how feelings of al
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Subject Argentine fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Jews in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Jews -- Identity.
Jewish diaspora in literature.
Jews -- Argentina -- Identity
Judaism and literature -- Argentina
Argentine fiction
Collective memory in literature
Jewish diaspora in literature
Jews -- Identity
Jews in literature
Judaism and literature
Literature
SUBJECT Argentina -- In literature
Subject Argentina
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611460155
1611460158