By Robert E. Diantonio, Nora Glickman
This e-book reports the wealthy repository of Latin American Jewish literature, exploring the problems of vanishing traditions besides the topic of assimilation and acculturation. It areas in sharp reduction the Jewish contribution to the Latin American literary growth. a big element of this research is an exam of the contributions of ladies authors to this box. It reports Jewish existence in groups which are little identified in both the Jewish or non-Jewish global, worlds precise in the diaspora adventure. The ebook comprises severe essays through the world over popular students, besides in-depth interviews with significant writers. individuals contain Regina Igel, Florinda Goldberg, Robert DiAntonio, Leonardo Senkman, Naomi Lindstrom, David Foster, Edna Aizenberg, Nora Glickman, Lois Bara, Judith Morganroth Schneider, Murray Baumgarten, Flor Schiminovich, Sandra Cypess, Edward Friedman, Ilan Stavans, Jacobo Sefarmi, and Mario A. Rojas.
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Yet, in spite of oscillation and constant displacement, in spite of shifting structures and references, I seem to favor certain themes: the family, a voracious need for totality, a spiritual quest, a Cuban identity which is solid and dubious, a preference for elegant poverty, a need for the narrative in poetry, a search for the moral and rabbinical self, a desire to reach a 24 Nora Glickman transcendental and transfigurative space, a will to tranquility, the exploration of Oriental philosophy (Confucianism and Zen Buddhism, Taoism) and, last but not least (on the contrary), the Jewish reference, the exploration (through poetry) of my Jewish self, its dolorous and odorous way of manifesting itself, in continuity and oblivion.
Another way of dealing with one's death through some sort of a device called creativity, poetry. 2. I see no significance in national, racial, religious, sexual identity in terms of intimacy and the ultimate. I see no greater gain in the institutionalizing of identity. Moreover, it is in detriment of creativity, poetry, to put too much weight on this business of identity. 3. To put it differently, I am what I am (whatever that may be or mean, if anything at all) in spite of being writer, poet, Cuban, Jewish, living in this country.
In continuity, for the Jew in me is always there, a constant, a permanent affliction, a wound. A wound? Look, the Jew has received a command. And under such burden he labors, acts, errs, struggles, cries. Poetry is my command. At one point, rather early, I must have reacted to the command that the Jew receives (and hears, as a voice from above) by making poetry my vessel, a vessel where the Order, and a chaotic sense of order, is poured. What is poured is, in part, not only referentially but, above all spiritually Jewish.