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dc.contributor.authorKaminsky, Amy K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-03T11:02:17Z
dc.date.available2022-01-03T11:02:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220103_9781438483306_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52184
dc.description.abstractThe Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multiethnic yet deeply Roman Catholic country, Argentina has worked mightily to fashion itself as a modern nation. In so doing, it has grappled with the paradox of Jewishness, emblematic both of modernity and of the lingering traces of the premodern. By the same token, Jewishness is woven into, but also other to, Argentineity. Consequently, books, movies, and art that reflect on Jewishness play a significant role in shaping Argentina's cultural landscape. In the process they necessarily inscribe, and sometimes confound, norms of gender and sexuality. Just as Jewishness seeps into Argentina, Argentina's history, politics, and culture mark Jewishness and alter its meaning. The feminized body of the Jewish male, for example, is deeply rooted in Western tradition; but the stigmatized body of the Jewish prostitute and the lacerated body of the Jewish torture victim acquire particular significance in Argentina. Furthermore, Argentina's iconic Jewish figures include not only the peddler and the scholar, but also the Jewish gaucho and the urban mobster, troubling conventional readings of Jewish masculinity. As it searches for threads of Jewishness, richly imbued with the complexities of gender and sexuality, The Other/Argentina explores the patterns those threads weave, however overtly or subtly, into the fabric of Argentine national meaning, especially at such critical moments in Argentine history as the period of massive state-sponsored immigration, the rise of labor and anarchist movements, the Perón era, and the 1976–83 dictatorship. In arguing that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation, the book shifts the focus in Latin American Jewish studies from Jewish identity to the meaning of Jewishness for the nation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1711.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSUNY Press Open Access; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history & criticism
dc.subject.otherFeminism & feminist theory
dc.subject.otherGender studies: women & girls
dc.subject.otherGay & Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies
dc.titleThe Other/Argentina
dc.title.alternativeJews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1353/book.83162
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy1e003940-c9f9-4f5d-b1a0-1cfa16a3eae7
oapen.relation.isbn9781438483306
oapen.relation.isbn9781438483290
oapen.relation.isbn9781438483283
oapen.imprintSUNY Press
oapen.pages262


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