The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
May 25, 2009 2:58 PM
by Erin Graff Zivin
Duke University Press, $21.95
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. In this book, Erin Graff Zivin, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at USC College, helps to correct this imbalance by tracing the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewish culture in literary works from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Nicaragua. Her investigation reveals a broader, more complex anxiety surrounding differences in modern Latin American culture.
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