The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary

by Erin Graff Zivin

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While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth- through late-twentieth-century literary works from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, and Nicaragua. Ultimately, Graff Zivin's investigation...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822343673

ISBN13:9780822343677

Release Date:December 2008

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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