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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Alejandra Laera, University of Buenos Aires, Mónica Szurmuk, Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
  • Book:
    A History of Argentine Literature
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    Argentine Literature continues to figure prominently in Spanish and Modern Languages programs in the English-speaking world, and there are specialists in Argentine literature in most departments in the United States, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. If we peruse the anthologies commonly used for survey courses, and the requirements for graduate degrees, we will find Argentine literature overrepresented. Certain authors are also regularly taught in English and Comparative Literature departments, and in large survey classes in World Literatures, Third World Literatures, and Gender Studies. This continued interest within and outside foreign language departments, and the recent boom in translation of Argentine works, provides fertile ground for this volume.

  • Chapter 17 - The Jewish Presence in Argentine Literature

  • from Part II - Critical Inroads
  • Edited by Alejandra Laera, University of Buenos Aires, Mónica Szurmuk, Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
  • Book:
    A History of Argentine Literature
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 258-271

  • Summary

    This chapter proposes a reading of Argentine-Jewish literature that stresses key moments of production. It begins with a focus on Alberto Gerchunoff´s The Jewish Gauchos as the foundational text (and of modern Jewish literature in Spanish) and the moment of massive immigration. Gerchunoff is read alongside Borges, who is treated as a contrapunctual figure, a canonical writer who engages with transnational Jewish literatures and draws strategies from Jewish reading and writing to devise his own literary models.  The second part examines the impact of the Shoah on Argentine Jewish literature of the 1950s and 1960s focusing on playwright Germán Rozenmacher and in the world of Yiddish and Ladino publishing. Tamara Kamenszain is subsequently described as an author that espouses “reluctant belonging,” someone who has engaged with different subjects and different styles but never ventures very far away from Jewishness. The third part treats the use of the Holocaust metaphorically to discuss state terrorism in the works of Reina Roffé and Sergio Chejfec. It concludes with a reflection on contemporary writing and the variety of literary genres.

A History of Argentine Literature
  • Edited by Alejandra Laera, Mónica Szurmuk
  • Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024
  • Argentine Literature continues to figure prominently in academic programs in the English-speaking world, and it has an increasing presence in English translation in international prizes and trade journals. A History of Argentine Literature proposes a major reimagining of Argentine literature attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages and to current debates in Literary Studies. Panoramic in scope and incisive in its in-depth studies of authors, works, and theoretical problems, this volume builds on available scholarship on canonical works but opens up the field to include a more diverse rendering as well as engaging with the full spectrum of textual interventions from travel writing to drama, from popular 'gauchesca' to celebrated avant guard works Working at the crossroads of disciplines, languages and critical traditions, this book accounts for the wealth of Argentine cultural  production and maps the rich, diverse and often overlooked history of Argentine literature.

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