Jewish issues in Argentine literature : from Gerchunoff to Szichman
Abstract
This examination of Jewish Argentine literature centers on the analysis of eight selected works whose publication dates range from 1910 to 1977. This study will examine poetry and a more abstract novel in addition to novels more overtly concerned with social history.
Table of Contents
Alberto Gerchunoff : rhapsodizing a Jewish new world -- César Tiempo : worldy lyricization of the urban Jewish experience -- Bernardo Verbitsky : toward a critical discussion of Jewish Argentine issues -- David Viñas : the novelistics of cultural contradiction -- José Rabinovich : a poetics of disputation -- José Isaacson : an open letter to Spinoza -- Marcos Ricardo Barnatán : the new novel as access to Kabbalah -- Mario Szichman : a questioning eye on Jewish Argentine history.