On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture

by Edna Aizenberg

Book Overview

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean writing--Alberto Gerchunoff, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa--Aizenberg illuminates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611688566
• ISBN13: 9781611688566
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"