The Other/Argentina : Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation.

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaminsky, Amy K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SUNY Press Open Access Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Planting Wheat and Reaping Doctors: Another Way of Being Argentine
  • 2 Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Anxiety
  • 3 Provisional Identity
  • 4 Family Stories and the Invention of Memory
  • 5 Jewish Legibility and Argentine Self-Fashioning
  • 6 Incidental Jewishness
  • 7 Embedded Jewishness: Memory and the State in Times of Terror
  • 8 Troubling Difference: Jewishness, Gender, and Transgressive Sexuality
  • By Way of Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index.