Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity

Author:   Amalia Ran ,  Jean Cahan
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   1
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9789004203952


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
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Author:   Amalia Ran ,  Jean Cahan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.591kg
ISBN:  

9789004203952


ISBN 10:   9004203958
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Introduction: Rethinking Jewish Identity in Latin America Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan Part 1. Jewish Latin American Experiences, Past and Present 1. Jewish Latin American Historiography: The Challenges Ahead Raanan Rein 2. Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and Their Schools, 1920-1960 Adriana Brodsky 3. The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: The Case of Sergio Chejfec Sergio Waisman Part 2. Jewishness as Literary Representation 4. Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty-First Century Edna Aizenberg 5. Hacer la America: The Diasporic Imagination in Saed's Triple cronica de un hombre Joanna L. Mitchell 6. Judaism, Sexuality, and the Nation in Francisco Goldman's The Divine Husband Ariana Vigil Part 3. Jewish and Lo Latinoamericana in the Arts 7. Borges and the Kabbalah: Pre-Texts to a Text Saul Sosnowski 8. Music of the Underdog: Sociological and Musical Similarities between Muzika Mizrahit and Salsa Moshe Morad 9. Jewish Puberty in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Constructing Judeo-Latinidad Tzvi Tal Part 4. The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration 10. The Books That Should Not Be Missing in Any Jewish Home : Translation as a Cultural Policy in Argentina, 1919-1938 Alejandro Dujovne 11. Beyond Identity: Clarice Lispector and the Ethical Transcendence of Being for the Other Nelson Vieira 12. Plausible Alternatives in the Jewish Argentinean Integration Game Lourdes Barranco-Cortes 13. Otherness in El arbol de la gitana Dayana Soto y Caballero de Galicia

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Amalia Ran, Ph.D. (2007) in Spanish, University of Maryland, is Assistant Professor of contemporary Latin American literature at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and a Research Fellow at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies in Tel-Aviv University. She has published on Latin American literature and Jewish Latin American culture, including Made of Shores: Judeo Argentinean Fiction Revisited, forthcoming by Lehigh University Press (2011). Jean Axelrad Cahan, Ph.D (1983) The Johns Hopkins University, is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published articles on Spinoza, Marx and modern Jewish thought.

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