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The Wandering Signifier

Author : Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390035
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Signifier written by Erin Graff Zivin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth- through late-twentieth-century literary works from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, and Nicaragua. Ultimately, Graff Zivin’s investigation of representations of Jewishness reveals a broader, more complex anxiety surrounding difference in modern Latin American culture. In her readings of Spanish American and Brazilian fiction, Graff Zivin highlights inventions of Jewishness in which the concept is constructed as a rhetorical device. She argues that Jewishness functions as a wandering signifier that while not wholly empty, can be infused with meaning based on the demands of the textual project in question. Just as Jews in Latin America possess distinct histories relative to their European and North American counterparts, they also occupy different symbolic spaces in the cultural landscape. Graff Zivin suggests that in Latin American fiction, anxiety, desire, paranoia, attraction, and repulsion toward Jewishness are always either in tension with or representative of larger attitudes toward otherness, whether racial, sexual, religious, national, economic, or metaphysical. She concludes The Wandering Signifier with an inquiry into whether it is possible to ethically represent the other within the literary text, or whether the act of representation necessarily involves the objectification of the other.

Transient Apostle

Author : Timothy Luckritz Marquis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187149
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Transient Apostle written by Timothy Luckritz Marquis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIn a significant reevaluation of Paulâ€™s place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostleâ€™s correspondence and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day./div

The Wandering Signifier

Author : Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Signifier written by Erin Graff Zivin and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the symbolic presence of "Jews or Jewishness" in modern Latin American literature./div

The Other/Argentina

Author : Amy K. Kaminsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438483309
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Other/Argentina written by Amy K. Kaminsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Figurative Inquisitions

Author : Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810167433
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Figurative Inquisitions written by Erin Graff Zivin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe. Yet discussion of torture has remained restricted to three principal fields: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral, eclipsing the less immediate but vital question of what torture does.Figurative Inquisitions seeks to correct this lacuna by approaching the question of torture from a literary vantage point. This book investigates the uncanny presence of the Inquisition and marranismo (crypto-Judaism) in modern literature, theater, and film from Mexico, Brazil, and Portugal. Through a critique of fictional scenes of interrogation, it underscores the vital role of the literary in deconstructing the relation between torture and truth. Figurative Inquisitions traces the contours of a relationship among aesthetics, ethics, and politics in an account of the "Inquisitional logic" that continues to haunt contemporary political forms. In so doing, the book offers a unique humanistic perspective on current torture debates.

Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics

Author : Thomas de Zengotita
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319906895
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics written by Thomas de Zengotita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism, critical theory, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and all the rest? In an effort to arrive at a fair judgment on that question, the book reaches for an understanding of postmodern theorists by way of two genres they despised and hopes, for that very reason, to do them justice. It tells a story, and in the telling, advances two basic claims: first, that the phenomenological/hermeneutical tradition is the most suitable source of theory for a humanism that aspires to be universal; and, second, that the ethical and political aspect of the human condition is authentically accessible only through narrative. In conclusion, it argues that the postmodern moment was a necessary one, or will have been if we rise to the occasion and seize the opportunity it offers: a truly universal humanism might yet be realized even in—or perhaps especially in—this atavistic hour of parochial populism.

Revolutionary Visions

Author : Stephanie M. Pridgeon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148750814X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Visions written by Stephanie M. Pridgeon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.

Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema

Author : P. Coates
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137396695
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema written by P. Coates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Véronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire.

Deconstructive Criticism

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231054737
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructive Criticism written by Vincent B. Leitch and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal prelude to the study of deconstructive theory for the as-yet-uninitiated reader. Leitch uses in-depth analyses, surveys of historical background, and helpful overviews to address the questions posed by the major figures -- Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes Foucault -- then penetrates and displays the subtle intricacies of their answers.

Promised Lands North and South

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004548696
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Promised Lands North and South written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration, antisemitism, or health. Taken together, the essays in Promised Lands North and South offer sparkling insight and new depth on the modern Jewish global experience.

The Merchant of Havana

Author : Stephen Silverstein
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826503845
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Havana written by Stephen Silverstein and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. What was remarkable about this anti-Semitism was the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era. This form of anti-Semitism, Silverstein reveals, sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs.

Nakagami, Japan

Author : Anne McKnight
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816672857
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Nakagami, Japan written by Anne McKnight and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Japan’s most canonical postwar writer brought that country’s largest social minority into the mainstream.

Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text

Author : Thomas E. Yingling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226956350
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text written by Thomas E. Yingling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-04-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of the gay writer."—Voice Literary Supplement "A brilliant critical model for understanding how textuality and sexuality can produce pervasive effects on each other in the writing of a figure like Crane."—Michael Moon, Duke University

Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

Author : C. Davison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230006035
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature written by C. Davison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' that convey how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature.

After Lacan

Author : Willy Apollon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791454794
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book After Lacan written by Willy Apollon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors use examples from their own clinical practice to explain the development of Lacanian theory.

The New Jewish Argentina (paperback)

Author : Adriana Brodsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004237283
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The New Jewish Argentina (paperback) written by Adriana Brodsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations to Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein whose edited volume has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize! The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history, including unaffiliated Jews, women and gender, criminals, printing presses and book stores. These essays, written by scholars from various countries, consider the tensions between the national and the trans-national and offer a mosaic of identities which is relevant to all interested in Jewish history, Argentine history and students of ethnicity and diaspora. This collection problematizes the existing image of Jewish-Argentines and looks at Jews not just as persecuted ethnics, idealized agricultural workers, or as political actors in Zionist politics. "This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, Ethnic History, and Jewish Studies, but its readership could extend to anybody who is interested in this chapter of social and cultural history." Ariana Huberman, Haverford College

The Meanings of Europe

Author : Claudia Wiesner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134458452
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Europe written by Claudia Wiesner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts. The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and (ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear significance for today’s debates on European identity, Europeanization, and the EU.