Passion, memory, and identity
By: edited by Marjorie Agosín.
Contributors: Agosín, Marjorie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jewish Latin America
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Latin American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Jewish women -- Latin America -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- Latin America.; Women and literature -- Latin America.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Jewish women in literature.; Jews in literature.
Description: This collection of essays, written by a distinguished group of literary critics, explores the Jewish woman's experience in Latin America. It came about as an attempt to define the cultural experience of Jewish Latin American women writers, as well as their relationship with their various countries.
Notes: "Twentieth-century Latin American Jewish women writers"--P. opp. t.p.
Table of contents: title: On separate ground / Ilan Stavans; title: Mapping the Jewish female voice in contemporary Mexican narrative / Magdalena Maíz-Peña; title: Recent Argentine women writers of Jewish descent / David William Foster; title: Brazilian Jewish women writers at the crossroads / Regina Igel; title: Clarice Lispector's Jewish universe: passion in search of narrative identity / Nelson H. Vieira; title: Emigrant memory : Jewish women writers in Chile and Uruguay / Elizabeth Rosa Horan; title: Venezuelan Jewish women writers and the search for heritage / Joan Esther Friedman; title: In search of the Cuban Jewish woman writer: a trialogue = un triálogo / Ruth Behar, Ester Shapiro Rok, and Rosa Lowinger.