Tarica Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8796-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarica, Estelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The "Latin Americanization" of the Holocaust

1. The Demands of the Times: Jewish Holocaust Discourse in Dictatorship and Early-Transition Argentina, 1976–1985

2. Holocaust Consciousness as Critical Consciousness in Post-dictatorship Argentina, 1995–2005

3. José Emilio Pacheco, Tununa Mercado, and Holocaust Testimony at the Mexico-Argentina Crossroads

4. Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil's "Maya Holocaust": Victims and Vanquished in Post-genocide Guatemala

5. Holocaust Testimony and Maya Testimony between the U.S. and Guatemala

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism.