Nazism The Second World War And The Holocaust In Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Author : Emily M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009079624

Get Book

Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Emily M. Baker Pdf

Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, this book charts the evolution of Latin American literary production from the 19th Century, through the late 20th century 'Boom', to the present day. Containing texts from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, it analyses work by some of the most well-known contemporary writers including Roberto Bolaño, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jorge Volpi, Lucía Puenzo, Patricio Pron and Michel Laub; as well as notable precursors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Piglia. Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction argues that these authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges we face: from racism, to the unequal division of wealth and labour between the Global 'North' and 'South'; and, of course, the general failure of democracy to eliminate fascism.

Author : Emily M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512425

Get Book

Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Emily M. Baker Pdf

This book shows how Latin American authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges.

Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611688573

Get Book

On the Edge of the Holocaust by Edna Aizenberg Pdf

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 clichŽs 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.

Author : Max Paul Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521822467

Get Book

Nazis and Good Neighbors by Max Paul Friedman Pdf

Table of contents

Author : Catherine Davies,Rory O'Bryen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789627282

Get Book

Transnational Spanish Studies by Catherine Davies,Rory O'Bryen Pdf

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.

Author : Eric Lichtblau
Publisher : HMH
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547669229

Get Book

The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau Pdf

A Newsweek Best Book of the Year: “Captivating . . . rooted in first-rate research” (The New York Times Book Review). In this New York Times bestseller, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the US government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years after their arrival did private sleuths and government prosecutors begin trying to identify the hidden Nazis. Now, relying on a trove of newly disclosed documents and scores of interviews, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau reveals this little-known and “disturbing” chapter of postwar history (Salon).

Author : Daniela Gleizer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004262102

Get Book

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 by Daniela Gleizer Pdf

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.

Author : Stella Bruzzi,Maurice Biriotti
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781800083394

Get Book

Lockdown Cultures by Stella Bruzzi,Maurice Biriotti Pdf

Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analysed 2020–21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past. The result is a book that serves as testament to the humanities’ reinvigorated and reforged sense of identity, from the perspective of UCL and one of the leading arts and humanities faculties in the world. It bears witness to a globally impactful event while showcasing interdisciplinary thinking and examining how the pandemic has changed how we read, watch, write and educate. More than thirty individual contributions collectively reassert the importance of the arts and humanities for contemporary society.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811217941

Get Book

Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature, Bolano's work is a tour de force of black humor.

Author : Michael Eskin,Karen Leeder,Marko Pajević
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110658330

Get Book

Paul Celan Today by Michael Eskin,Karen Leeder,Marko Pajević Pdf

Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and œuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research by international scholars together with original contributions by contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy, poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new generation.

Author : Daniela Gleizer Salzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:865045294

Get Book

Unwelcome Exiles by Daniela Gleizer Salzman Pdf

Author : Estelle Tarica
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438487960

Get Book

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America by Estelle Tarica Pdf

This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries. In so doing, they have developed a unique, controversial approach to the memory of the Holocaust that is little known outside the region. Estelle Tarica deepens our understanding of Holocaust awareness in a global context by examining diverse Jewish and non-Jewish voices, focusing on Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala. What happens, she asks, when we find the Holocaust invoked in unexpected places and in relation to other events, such as the Argentine "Dirty War" or the Mayan genocide in Guatemala? The book draws on meticulous research in two areas that have rarely been brought into contact—Holocaust Studies and Latin American Studies—and aims to illuminate the topic for readers who may be new to the fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004699295

Get Book

Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America After 1945 by Anonim Pdf

Numerous Nazis and Nazi sympathizers fled to Latin America at the end of World War II. This volume traces life trajectories and professional activities of some of these persons and reconstructs their contacts with local elites in their new and old homes in the context of the Cold War.

Author : Gerald D. Feldman,Wolfgang Seibel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 157181177X

Get Book

Networks of Nazi Persecution by Gerald D. Feldman,Wolfgang Seibel Pdf

The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of persecution, presented by prominent historians and social scientists. Gerald D. Feldman was Professor of History and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were 20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi period. Wolfgang Seibel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previous appointments include guest professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna (1992), and the University of California at Berkeley (1994). He was also a temporary member of the School of Social Science (1989/90) and of the School of Historical Studies (2003) of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Currently (2004/2005) he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research is mainly devoted to issues of politics, public bureaucracy and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Donald Bloxham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208723

Get Book

Genocide on Trial by Donald Bloxham Pdf

When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what had happened in Europe. This ground-breaking new study shows how Britain and the United States went about inscribing thehistory of Nazi Germany and the effect their trial and occupation policies had on both long and short term 'memory' in Germany and Britain. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, andAllied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' - the 'final solution of the Jewish question' - was largely written out of history in thepost-war era and the trials failed to transmit the breadth of German criminality. Finally, with reference to the historiography of the Holocaust, Genocide on Trial illuminates the function of the trials in perpetuating misleading generalizations about the course of the Holocaust and the nature ofNazism.