| Popis: |
This chapter traces the development of the Jewish-Latin American novel, primarily throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Structured as a survey of the Jewish novel, the essay provides a history of the contribution of Jewish authors to the larger body of the narrative genre in Latin America. “Jewish novel” is loosely defined as texts not only written by Jewish authors, but also novels in which Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism are central to the theme. Novels are categorized thematically in groupings such as the novel of immigration and assimilation, the historical novel, novels of the Holocaust, the Sephardic novel, family narratives, the gay/lesbian/queer novel, and the auto/biographical novel. Countries represented in the essay include Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Mexico. The chapter provides an assessment of the important role Jewish novelists have played, not only in their respective national literatures, but also in the Latin American continent as a whole, as pertains to the narrative genre of the novel. |
