King David's harp : autobiographical essays by Jewish Latin American writers / edited with an introduction by Stephen A. Sadow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadow, Stephen A., 1946-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Jewish Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish authors--Latin America--Biography.

Jewish authors.

Latin America.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 260 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1999]

Summary:

"In this collection of fifteen essays, Jewish Latin American writers speak for themselves about their lives, their literary work, their formative experiences, and the Jewish communities in Latin America and the United States. Included are writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela, about half of whom live outside their country of origin. With the exception of Alberto Gerchunoff, arguably the father of Jewish Latin American writing, all the writers are living and writing actively."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Stephen A. Sadow

A Jewish gaucho / Alberto Gerchunoff

Family trees / Margo Glantz

Boredom is the worst of the sins / Marcos Aguinis

Death, exile, inheritance / Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

A centaur in the garden / Moacyr Scliar

Recollections of a Criolla Zionist / Alicia Freilich de Segal

Natural instincts / José Kozer

Blows to the heart / Ricardo Feierstein

The discovery of life and language at an early age / Ariel Dorfman

Life in installments / Isaac Goldemberg

Distorted words, distorted images, broken languages / Mario Szichman

Résumé raisonné /Alcina Lubitch Domecq

Through a field of stars, I remember / Marjorie Agosín

Juban América / Ruth Behar

Lost in translation / Ilan Stavans

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260).

National Jewish Book Awards - Autobiography and Memoir, Winner, 1999

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: King David's harp.

ISBN:

0826318479

9780826318473

0826320872

9780826320872

OCLC:

41439559