- Summary
- "Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Tarica, Estelle, author.
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Locale
- Latin America
Argentina
Guatemala
Mexico
Amérique latine
Argentine
Mexique
- Contents
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Introduction: The "Latin Americanization" of the Holocaust
The demands of the times : Jewish Holocaust discourse in dictatorship and early-transition Argentina, 1976-1985
Holocaust consciousness as critical consciousness in post-dictatorship Argentina, 1995-2005
José Emilio Pacheco, Tununa Mercado and Holocaust testimony at the Mexico-Argentina crossroads
Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil's "Maya Holocaust" : victims and vanquished in post-genocide Guatemala
Holocaust testimony and Maya testimony between the U.S. and Guatemala.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The "Latin Americanization" of the Holocaust -- The demands of the times : Jewish Holocaust discourse in dictatorship and early-transition Argentina, 1976-1985 -- Holocaust consciousness as critical consciousness in post-dictatorship Argentina, 1995-2005 -- José Emilio Pacheco, Tununa Mercado and Holocaust testimony at the Mexico-Argentina crossroads -- Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil's "Maya Holocaust" : victims and vanquished in post-genocide Guatemala -- Holocaust testimony and Maya testimony between the U.S. and Guatemala.
