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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822443303321

Autore

Aizenberg Edna

Titolo

On the edge of the Holocaust : the Shoah in Latin American literature and culture / / Edna Aizenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Brandeis University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61168-857-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/358405318

Soggetti

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Authors, Argentine - Political and social views

Authors, Brazilian - Political and social views

Authors, Chilean - Political and social views

Anti-Nazi movement - Latin America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: didn't all the Nazis go to Argentina? -- "Deutsches requiem": Jorge Luis Borges "represents" the Shoah -- Besieged in Berne: Clarice Lispector and the murmur of catastrophe -- Good-bye Jewish gaucho: Alberto Gerchunoff, anti-Nazi - Diplomacy, literature, rescue: João Guimarães Rosa, Consul in Hamburg -- Not just children's poetry: Gabriela Mistral, consul in Nice -- Epilogue: the anti-Nazis were there too.

Sommario/riassunto

Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era