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Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity
Author(s): Amalia Ran (Editor), Jean Cahan
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 14 Oct. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004203958
- ISBN-13: 9789004203952
Book 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.
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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.
About the Author
Amalia Ran, Ph.D. (2007) in Spanish, University of Maryland, is Assistant Professor of contemporary Latin American literature at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and a Research Fellow at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies in Tel-Aviv University. She has published on Latin American literature and Jewish Latin American culture, including Made of Shores: Judeo Argentinean Fiction Revisited, forthcoming by Lehigh University Press (2011).
Jean Axelrad Cahan, Ph.D (1983) The Johns Hopkins University, is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published articles on Spinoza, Marx and modern Jewish thought.
Jean Axelrad Cahan, Ph.D (1983) The Johns Hopkins University, is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published articles on Spinoza, Marx and modern Jewish thought.
