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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedAfter the spate of studies from the 1970s to the 1990s, the well of Borges and Jewish mysticism seems to have run dry. Borges criticism moved on from the symbolic corpus, pseudepigraphy, and the layers of meaning to...
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From: Partricide on the Pampas? A New Study and Translation of Alberto Gerchunoff's 'Los Gauchos Judios[(essay date 2000) In the following introduction to her detailed examination of Los Gauchos Judios, Aizenberg provides a historical perspective to the events surrounding the period from which this book arose, as well as...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 22) Peer-ReviewedIn a stunning development that has shaken the erudite world of biblical scholarship, and that has wide implications for Christianity and interfaith relations, a text unearthed in Buenos Aires depicts Judas Iscariot not...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date 1992) In the following excerpt, Aizenberg discusses the influence Borges's work has on “postcolonial” literature and criticism.] 1. Postmodernism holds center stage as the major critical practice of the...
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From: Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish Writing[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Aizenberg chronicles the attempts of Argentine-Jewish writers to address the anti-Semitism and xenophobic mindsets that characterize a great part of Argentine society, focusing...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedEl 13 de marzo de 2013 monsenor Jorge Bergoglio, ahora papa Francisco, fue elegido sucesor de Joseph Ratzinger ... ?Quien es este docente que llevaba a sus clases a Jorge Luis Borges y le hacia leer los cuentos de sus...
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From: Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Aizenberg examines Okri's contributions to the literary tradition of magical realism.] My topic is magical realism--a maddening, marvelous, carnivalesque topic, dizzyingly...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 33) Peer-Reviewed1. A SERIOUS-COMEDIC CRITICAL COLLAGE What was Borges up to in his latest volume? The symbol on the cover looked weird and the name sounded strange: El Aleph. Whatever it meant, and however you pronounced it, the...
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From: Publications of the Modern Language Association[(essay date October 1992) In the following essay, Aizenberg addresses the differences between actual history and common beliefs, and discusses the concept of embellished history in historical novels by Gabriel García...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSamovars can be used for brewing more than tea. My essay proposes a theory of Latin American Jewish literature through part serious, part playful commentary on Eduardo Stilman's story, "El samovar de plata" (The Silver...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 20) Peer-ReviewedBORGES AT THE UNITED NATIONS On September 20, 2002 Ramsey Clark, former United States Attorney General, addressed a sharply worded letter to the United Nations. In it, he condemned his country's imminent invasion of...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date summer 1999) In the following essay, Aizenberg examines zombie characters "as an example of the trope of hybridity through which we can enjoy postcolonialism's pleasures, explore its perils, and create a...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 25) Peer-ReviewedLook up in the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Super-Borges. There he is, billowing high above maps, atlases, spatial relations, everywhere and nowhere, disconnected, disembodied, unreal. An imaginary being, a...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article began with a zombie. Had it not been for the zombie, I wouldn't have opened the way I did, nor said what I am about to say, nor compared what I am about to compare. I would have written about...
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From: Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Ross explores commonalities between Carey's fiction and that of the South American author Jorge Luis Borges, noting that this influence internationalizes Australian fiction...
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From: Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Ross focuses on Carey's short stories as he speculates on the influence of Argentine writer You're quite right when you suggest that it might be difficult to say exactly how...