Keeping the Mystery Alive

Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production

AvAriana Huberman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Jewish Latin American Studies

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Beskrivning

This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. It introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present focusing on representations of dybbuks (transmigratory souls), the presence of Eros as part of the experience of mystical prayer, reformulations of Zoharic fables, and the search for Tikkun Olam (cosmic repair), among other key topics of Jewish Mysticism. The purpose of this book is to open up these aspects of their work to a broad audience who may or may not be familiar with Jewish Mysticism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-22
Mått:155 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:27 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jewish Latin American Studies
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618118349

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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Mer om författaren

Ariana Huberman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Haverford College. She is also author of Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside (2011), co-editor of Memoria y Representación. Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío latinoamericano (2006) with Alejandro Meter, and of Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (2018) with Nora Glickman. She was born in Argentina and now lives with her family in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Recensioner i media

“One of Huberman’s great achievements is that her dialoguebetween literature, art and Jewish mysticism opens up new reflections on hybridity anddiaspora at the core of each of these elements. Readers interested in any of these writers,in the Judaic cultures of Latin America (understood in wide, diasporic terms), and inthe artistic applications of Jewish mysticism, will find this book extremely rewarding.”— Sheldon Penn, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production—Beyond Borges1. The Exotic in the Eye of the Beholder: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Literature and Film2. The Cycle of Life: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s Writings3. In Search of Tikkun Olam: Mario Satz’s Literature4. Wandering Souls in Isaac Goldemberg’s Narrative and PoetryConcluding RemarksBibliography Index