Books and bombs in Buenos Aires : Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish writing / Edna Aizenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aizenberg, Edna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

Gerchunoff, Alberto, 1883-1950.

Argentine literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Jews in literature.

Argentine literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Gerchunoff, Alberto, 1883-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Gerchunoff, Alberto.

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Criticism and interpretation.

Argentine literature--Jewish authors.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover : University Press of New England, [2002]

Contents:

Parricide on the Pampa

Slaying Gerchunoff and his Jewish gauchos

Gerardo Mario Goloboff's writing of the disaster

Ricardo Feierstein's Mestizo : Kaleidoscopic identities and human rights

Lenta biografía : Sergio Chejfec's post-Holocaust, postcolonial had-gadya

Reality, mythology, neo-Sephardism

Marcos Aguinis : inquisitorial dungeons and literary Sephardism

Gabriela Avigur-Rotem : Mozart was not a Jew and Gerchunoff was not a woman

On translating Gerchunoff

Once more "Emma Zunz" : kabbalism and feminism

Did she discover America? : Alicia Freilich's Colombina descubierta

El laberinto de Sion : Marcos Ricardo Barnatan's Borgesian quest for Sephardic identity

Borges, postcolonial precursor

Borges 2000 : back to the future

Postmodern or post-Auschwitz? : Borges and the Holocaust

The samovar theory of Latin American-Jewish literature

A quasi-conclusion : Latin American Jewishness, a game with shifting identities.

Notes:

"Uncorrected proof."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-182).

Local Notes:

Library copy lacks postscript and index.

OCLC:

249389567