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The other/Argentina : Jews, gender, and sexuality in the making of a modern nation /

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Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaminsky, Amy K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
Subjects:
Jews > Argentina > Intellectual life.
Jews > Argentina > Civilization.
Argentina > Ethnic relations.
Jews > Identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Planting wheat and reaping doctors: another way of being Argentine
  • Modernity, cosmopolitanism, and anxiety
  • Provisional identity
  • Family stories and the invention of memory
  • Jewish legibility
  • Incidental Jewishness
  • Embedded Jewishness: memory and the state in times of terror
  • Troubling difference: Jewishness, gender, and transgressive sexuality.