Returning to Babel : Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity
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| Title: | Returning to Babel : Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity |
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| Description: | This volume offers a re-examination of some of the prevalent paradigms in Latin American Jewish Studies and an instigation to further explorations in this area. It sets out from an interdisciplinary standpoint, comprising literature, culture, history, cinematography, music and visual arts. This collection of articles seeks a wider range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives concerning Latin American Jewish experiences, and thereby offers a framework for innovative as well as traditional modes of analysis. It elaborates on themes of Jewish identity as represented in the history, cultures and societies of Latin America in the current era of hybridism and transnationalism. |
| Authors: | Amalia Ran, Jean Cahan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Jews--Latin America--Social life and customs, Jews--Cultural assimilation--Latin America, Jews--Latin America--Identity, Jews--Latin America--Intellectual life--21st century, Jewish literature--Latin America--History and criticism, Social integration, Latin American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism |
| Categories: | RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, HISTORY / United States / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This volume offers a re-examination of some of the prevalent paradigms in Latin American Jewish Studies and an instigation to further explorations in this area. It sets out from an interdisciplinary standpoint, comprising literature, culture, history, cinematography, music and visual arts. This collection of articles seeks a wider range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives concerning Latin American Jewish experiences, and thereby offers a framework for innovative as well as traditional modes of analysis. It elaborates on themes of Jewish identity as represented in the history, cultures and societies of Latin America in the current era of hybridism and transnationalism. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004203952 9789004217669 |
