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On the edge of the Holocaust : the Shoah in Latin American literature and culture / Edna Aizenberg

Aizenberg, Edna, 1945-2018 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis Univ. Press, 2015

xiv, 182 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Erscheint auch als: On the edge of the Holocaust / Aizenberg, Edna (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-61168-855-9 (hbk.); 978-1-61168-856-6

978-1-61168-857-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1002841973     

IQ 00187  | IQ 00222      Ähnliche Literatur

860.9/358405318

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen) ; 18.33 (Spanische Literatur außerhalb Spaniens)

* Gerchunoff, Alberto [1883-1950] ; Lispector, Clarice [1920-1977] ; Borges, Jorge Luis [1899-1986] ; Mistral, Gabriela [1889-1957] ; Rosa, João Guimarães [1908-1967] ; Judenvernichtung      Zum Register

*Lateinamerika ; Literatur ; Judenvernichtung <Motiv> ; Nationalsozialismus <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1945-1986     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Latin American literature / History and criticism / 20th century -- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- Authors, Argentine / Political and social views -- Authors, Chilean / Political and social views -- Authors, Brazilian / Political and social views -- Anti-Nazi movement / History / Latin America

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean writing—Alberto Gerchunoff, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa—Aizenberg illuminates how Latin American intellectuals engaged with the horrific information that reached them regarding the Holocaust, including the sympathy and collaboration of their own governments with the Nazis. Aizenberg emphasizes how—through fiction, journalism, and activism—these five culture-makers opposed and fought fascism. At the same time, her readings of individual texts confront shopworn clichés about Latin American writing and literature, suggesting deeper and richer dimensions to many canonical works. This interdisciplinary book fills critical gaps in both Holocaust and Latin American studies, and will be of great interest to scholars and students in both fields.

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