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Author Aizenberg, Edna

Title On the edge of the Holocaust : the Shoah in Latin American literature and culture / Edna Aizenberg
Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2015

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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
Summary Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Anti-Nazi movement
Authors, Argentine -- Political and social views
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Latin American literature
Literature - General.
Spanish Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Romance Literatures.
Latin America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015040768
ISBN 9781611688573
1611688574
1611688566
9781611688566
1611688558
9781611688559
Other Titles Shoah in Latin American literature and culture