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Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone (Paperback)
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Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone (Paperback)
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The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish
history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that
gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American
lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in
Latin America through the fictional Jewish characters of five
novels written by Jewish authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It examines how trauma and
memory have profound effects on shaping the identity of these
Jewish characters who have to forge a new identity as they begin to
interact with the Latin American societies of their newly adopted
homes. The first three novels present stories narrated by the first
generation of immigrants who arrived in Latin American lands
escaping pogroms in Russia, and the increasing persecution and
anti-Semitism in Europe, in the decades prior to World War II. The
fourth novel analyses the identity conflicts experienced by a
second generation Latin American born Jew who questions his Jewish,
questions of assimilation and integration in to his society. The
last novel closes this study with the existential crisis
experienced by a perfectly assimilated non-religious Jew, who
enquires about his Jewishness and compares himself to other Jews
around him.
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