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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aizenberg, Edna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Authors, Argentine > Political and social views.
Authors, Chilean > Political and social views.
Authors, Brazilian > Political and social views.
Anti-Nazi movement > Latin America > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.