Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation /

"A riveting exploration of the intersecting lines of Jewish and indigenous Latin American thought and culture, by way of a family memoir. In Our America, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents' exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same ti...

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Main Author: Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Other Press, [2021]
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505 0 |a Introduction : the language of paradise -- Citizens of the world -- Unstable affiliations -- Why Misha left -- Emancipation and emigration -- Their first America -- Lisa Noemí Milstein -- The Amauta -- Jewish Americanism -- Expulsion -- The debacle -- Adulthood -- Genocide -- The national disease -- Colombian refuge -- Family life -- The need for a new world -- The limits of adaptation -- The limits of translation -- Dialectic of silence -- National liberation -- Israel -- Larissa and Cinna -- Return to Colombia -- How the marginalized survive -- My nationality -- Childhood as a collective achievement -- God's face -- Geology of Machu Picchu -- Sina and Cinna -- Sina Aronsfrau -- What's in a name? -- The Aronsfrau murder -- Envy -- Poor Cinna -- Author of my days -- Bigger smaller -- Mesohippus -- Rainbow scarab -- Final (bar mitzvah). 
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