Books and bombs in Buenos Aires
Subtitle: Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish writing
By: Edna Aizenberg.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Gerchunoff, Alberto, 1883-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Argentine literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Jews in literature.; Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- Argentina -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- Argentina.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Parricide on the Pampa; title: Slaying Gerchunoff and his Jewish gauchos; title: Gerardo Mario Goloboff's writing of the disaster; title: Ricardo Feierstein's Mestizo : Kaleidoscopic identities and human rights; title: Lenta biografía : Sergio Chejfec's post-Holocaust, postcolonial had-gadya; title: Reality, mythology, neo-Sephardism; title: Marcos Aguinis : inquisitorial dungeons and literary Sephardism; title: Gabriela Avigur-Rotem : Mozart was not a Jew and Gerchunoff was not a woman; title: On translating Gerchunoff; title: Once more "Emma Zunz" : kabbalism and feminism; title: Did she discover America? : Alicia Freilich's Colombina descubierta; title: El laberinto de Sion : Marcos Ricardo Barnatan's Borgesian quest for Sephardic identity; title: Borges, postcolonial precursor; title: Borges 2000 : back to the future; title: Postmodern or post-Auschwitz? : Borges and the Holocaust; title: The samovar theory of Latin American-Jewish literature; title: A quasi-conclusion : Latin American Jewishness, a game with shifting identities.