Trauma Memory And Identity In Five Jewish Novels From The Southern Cone

Author : Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739172971

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Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone by Debora Cordeiro Rosa Pdf

The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It examines how trauma and memory have profound effects on shaping the identity of these Jewish characters who have to forge a new identity as they begin to interact with the Latin American societies of their newly adopted homes. The first three novels present stories narrated by the first generation of immigrants who arrived in Latin American lands escaping pogroms in Russia, and the increasing persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe, in the decades prior to World War II. The fourth novel analyses the identity conflicts experienced by a second generation Latin American born Jew who questions his Jewish, questions of assimilation and integration in to his society. The last novel closes this study with the existential crisis experienced by a perfectly assimilated non-religious Jew, who enquires about his Jewishness and compares himself to other Jews around him.

Author : Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 6613645834

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Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone by Debora Cordeiro Rosa Pdf

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

Author : Ross Melnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231554138

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Hollywood's Embassies by Ross Melnick Pdf

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power.

Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030135072

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Memory, Trauma, and Identity by Ron Eyerman Pdf

This volume brings together Ron Eyerman’s most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research paradigm. This collection of disparate essays, published between 2004 and 2018, coheres around an original introduction that not only provides a historical overview of cultural trauma, but is also an important theoretical contribution to cultural trauma and collective identity in its own right. The Afterword from esteemed sociologist Eric Woods connects the essays and explores their significance for the broader fields of sociology, behavioral science, and trauma studies..

Author : Ewald Mengel,Michela Borzaga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9789401208451

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Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel by Ewald Mengel,Michela Borzaga Pdf

The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of trauma, they make clear how the psychic deformations and injuries left behind by racism and col

Author : Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739172988

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Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone by Debora Cordeiro Rosa Pdf

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Ron Eyerman,Bernard Giesen,Neil J. Smelser,Piotr Sztompka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520936768

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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Ron Eyerman,Bernard Giesen,Neil J. Smelser,Piotr Sztompka Pdf

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"—and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the United States, and September 11, 2001.

Author : Vladimir Jabotinsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780801471629

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The Five by Vladimir Jabotinsky Pdf

"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well as the image of our carefree Black Sea capital with acacias growing along its steep banks, are interwoven in my memory with the story of one family in which there were five children: Marusya, Marko, Lika, Serezha, and Torik."—from The Five The Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siècle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movement whose literary talents, until now, have largely gone unrecognized by Western readers. The author deftly paints a picture of Russia's decay and decline—a world permeated with sexuality, mystery, and intrigue. Michael R. Katz has crafted the first English-language translation of this important novel, which was written in Russian in 1935 and published a year later in Paris under the title Pyatero. The book is Jabotinsky's elegaic paean to the Odessa of his youth, a place that no longer exists. It tells the story of an upper-middle-class Jewish family, the Milgroms, at the turn of the century. It follows five siblings as they change, mature, and come to accept their places in a rapidly evolving world. With flashes of humor, Jabotinsky captures the ferment of the time as reflected in political, social, artistic, and spiritual developments. He depicts with nostalgia the excitement of life in old Odessa and comments poignantly on the failure of the dream of Jewish assimilation within the Russian empire.

Author : Robert Pirro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930860

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Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi by Robert Pirro Pdf

The book is an against-the-grain study of Primo Levi’s lifelong concerns about agency, both personal and political. It moves from fresh readings of his lesser-known short story and novels to a major reinterpretation of the testimonial works at the center of his legacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123442464

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cathy Caruth
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080185007X

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Trauma by Cathy Caruth Pdf

A distinguished group of analysts and critics offers a compelling look at what literature and the new approaches of theoretical disciplines bring to the understanding of traumatic experiences such as child abuse, AIDS, and the effects of historical atrocities such as the Holocaust. "These essays offer fresh approaches on the subject of trauma from both a psychoanalytic and contemporary theoretical point of view".--Alan Bass, Ph.D., psychoanalyst.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498517171

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Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives by Victoria Aarons Pdf

This collection introduces the reader to third-generation Holocaust narratives, exploring the unique perspective of third-generation writers and demonstrating the ways in which Holocaust memory and trauma extend into the future.

Author : Aaron Tillman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498565035

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Magical American Jew by Aaron Tillman Pdf

Analyzing contemporary works of short fiction and film, this book highlights the complexities and contradictions of Jewish American identity and demonstrates how magical realist techniques enable uniquely cogent portrayals of enigmatic elements of difference.

Author : Amy K. Milligan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498595803

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Jewish Bodylore by Amy K. Milligan Pdf

Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways in which the body can be conceptualized and experienced.

Author : Amy K. Kaminsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438483306

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The Other/Argentina by Amy K. Kaminsky Pdf

The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multiethnic yet deeply Roman Catholic country, Argentina has worked mightily to fashion itself as a modern nation. In so doing, it has grappled with the paradox of Jewishness, emblematic both of modernity and of the lingering traces of the premodern. By the same token, Jewishness is woven into, but also other to, Argentineity. Consequently, books, movies, and art that reflect on Jewishness play a significant role in shaping Argentina's cultural landscape. In the process they necessarily inscribe, and sometimes confound, norms of gender and sexuality. Just as Jewishness seeps into Argentina, Argentina's history, politics, and culture mark Jewishness and alter its meaning. The feminized body of the Jewish male, for example, is deeply rooted in Western tradition; but the stigmatized body of the Jewish prostitute and the lacerated body of the Jewish torture victim acquire particular significance in Argentina. Furthermore, Argentina's iconic Jewish figures include not only the peddler and the scholar, but also the Jewish gaucho and the urban mobster, troubling conventional readings of Jewish masculinity. As it searches for threads of Jewishness, richly imbued with the complexities of gender and sexuality, The Other/Argentina explores the patterns those threads weave, however overtly or subtly, into the fabric of Argentine national meaning, especially at such critical moments in Argentine history as the period of massive state-sponsored immigration, the rise of labor and anarchist movements, the Perón era, and the 1976–83 dictatorship. In arguing that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation, the book shifts the focus in Latin American Jewish studies from Jewish identity to the meaning of Jewishness for the nation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1711.