Format:
xiv, 182 Seiten
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ISBN:
9781611688559
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9781611688566
Content:
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean writing—Alberto Gerchunoff, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa—Aizenberg illuminates how Latin American intellectuals engaged with the horrific information that reached them regarding the Holocaust, including the sympathy and collaboration of their own governments with the Nazis. Aizenberg emphasizes how—through fiction, journalism, and activism—these five culture-makers opposed and fought fascism. At the same time, her readings of individual texts confront shopworn clichés about Latin American writing and literature, suggesting deeper and richer dimensions to many canonical works. This interdisciplinary book fills critical gaps in both Holocaust and Latin American studies, and will be of great interest to scholars and students in both fields.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611688573
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Aizenberg, Edna, 1945 - 2018 On the edge of the Holocaust Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2015 ISBN 9781611688573
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Gerchunoff, Alberto 1883-1950
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Lispector, Clarice 1920-1977
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Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986
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Mistral, Gabriela 1889-1957
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Rosa, João Guimarães 1908-1967
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Judenvernichtung
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Nationalsozialismus
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Rezeption
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Lateinamerika
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Literatur
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Judenvernichtung
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Nationalsozialismus
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Geschichte 1945-1986
URL:
http://www.upne.com/1611688559.html
Author information:
Aizenberg, Edna 1945-2018
