“Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers.”—Library Journal
“Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest.”—Publishers Weekly
Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans’s classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.
About the author
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination and The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture, Revised and Expanded Edition are also available from UNM Press.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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