A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights--An International Literary Anthology [ A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights--An International Literary Anthology by Agosin, Marjorie ( Author ) Paperback Jun- 1999 ] Paperback Jun- 01- 1999

A Map of Hope, Women's Writing on Human Rights „ An International Literary Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Marjorie Agosín

United States

Rutgers University Press, 1999

Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile—though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While commonalities of religion and culture link these communities across time and national boundaries, the Jewish experience in Latin America is irreducible to a single perspective. Only a multitude of voices can express it.
This anthology gathers fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America. Some of the pieces are personal tales of exile and survival; some explore Jewish humor and its role in amalgamating histories of past and present; and others look at serious episodes of political persecution and military dictatorship. As a whole, these challenging essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America and how it changes throughout history. They leave us to ponder the tantalizing question: Does being Jewish in the Americas speak to a transitory history or a more permanent one?

Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America

History

Americas

University of Texas Press

The book--a side by side bilingual edition--is published under the auspices of the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, Inc. and highlights the importance of Gabriela Mistral's Nobel Prize for Chile, for Latin America and for women writers. It allows readers of the Spanish and English languages to meet and rediscover Gabriela Mistral. The book includes the following sections: Introduction; Poetry; Prose; a collection of essays by important contributors, Afterword; References and photographs. The selection of poetry and prose is representative of the work of Gabriela that had been published up until the time of the Nobel Prize.

From Chile to the World - 70 Years of Gabriela Mistral's Nobel Prize

Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

Pablo Neruda (Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 769, Latin American Literature) (English and Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

Twayne

This collection confirms the author's reputation as one of the freshest and most sensual of feminist poets. Departing from unique interpretations of myth or from novel recreations of canonical poems, Agosin breaks new ground in her creation of an erotic ars poetica that is at the same time a poetic feminist manifesto.

Hogueras: Bonfires (English and Spanish Edition)

Poetry

Bilingual Pr (Bilrp)

Toward the Splendid City (English and Spanish Edition)

Bilingual Review Pr

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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: The Story of Renee Epelbaum 1976-1985

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Red Sea Press

I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

In the tradition of her critically acclaimed memoir of her mother, A Cross and a Star, Marjorie Agosin writes the life of her father, Moises Agosin, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always "others"—always from somewhere else. In Always From Somewhere Else, Agosin’s homage to her father becomes much more than a simple life story; it is a captivating and moving meditation on the boundaries of national and cultural identities, the meanings of exile and home, and the legacies of storytelling, memory, and love. "In this beautifully composed tribute to the life of her father, Marjorie Agosín first describes the flight of her grandparents, Abraham and Raquel from the war-ravaged and increasingly anti-Semitic Russia of 1917. They lived as refugees in Istanbul and Marseilles, where Moisés was born, before settling with their three sons in Quillota, Chile. In vivid detail, Agosín contrasts the beauty of the Chilean countryside with the ugliness of the entrenched anti-Semitism that made her father a permanent outsider. . . . Agosín paints a moving portrait of a man who, despite his love for his family, his work, and classical music, was, like herself, marked at the core of his identity as a wandering exile."—Publishers Weekly "This is a haunting work of extraordinary grace and depth."—Claribel Alegria Marjorie Agosín is author of many volumes of poetry, fiction, and essays. She is winner of the Letras do Oro Prize and the Latino Literature Prize, and is chair of the Spanish department at Wellesley College. Elizabeth Rosa Horan is an essayist, translator, and director of comparative studies in literature at Arizona State University.

Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)

Community & Culture

The Feminist Press at CUNY

In the tradition of her critically acclaimed memoir of her mother, A Cross and a Star, Marjorie Agosín traces the life story of her father, Moisés Agosín, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always "others"—always from somewhere else.In the search for her father's origins, Agosín reaches into the past to the story of her grandparents, a tailor and a cigarette maker who met in Odessa in 1890. In their flight from persecution and their search for a better life, Abraham and Rachel Agosín traveled to Istanbul, then briefly to Marseilles, where Moisés is born in the interim between two long sea journeys, "saved from the waters" like the biblical Moses. The family's continuing search for a home brings them at last to Chile—first to the port city of Valparaiso and then to the fertile central valley, to Quillota, "city of churches and avocados," where they find a measure of stability but remain, outsiders.Moisés Agosín studies in the capital, Santiago, and becomes a medical doctor and a respected research scientist. But decades after his parents' voyages, as Chile falls under the dictatorship of Pinochet, he takes his family on their final journey of exile, to the United States. Here he is once again treated as an outsider—this time, as a refugee from the "Third World." And here Marjorie herself grows up understanding that for her family, life has taken the form of a fragile, incongruous thread, destined to be spent "roaming from country to country, waiting for letters, inventing new languages, remembering distant ones".Marjorie Agosín weaves stories from the past and reflections from the present into a unique, poetic memoir. Her homage to her father becomes much more than a simple life story; it is a captivating and moving meditation on the boundaries of national and cultural identities, the meanings of exile and home, and the legacies of storytelling, memory, and love.

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