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The wandering signifier : rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American imaginary / Erin Graff Zivin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graff Zivin, Erin.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the symbolic presence of "Jews or Jewishness" in modern Latin American literature.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "Jewishness," alterity, and the ethics of representation
- Diagnosing "Jewishness"
- The scene of the transaction
- Textual conversions
- The limits of representation.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023230
- 9781283023238
- 1283023237
- 9780822343677
- 0822343673
- OCLC:
- 1097347548
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