2019
DOI: 10.25222/larr.676
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The Salience and Pervasiveness of the Literary Figure of the Jew in Latin America: From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract: Jews of Latin America, from the colonial period to the present, have been branded heretical, inauthentic, or treasonous and perceived as threats to the colonial domination of Spain's Counter-Reformation and modern iterations of nationalism in the region. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's El divino Narciso (1689) and Jorge Luis Borges's "El milagro secreto" ([1944] 1993) indicate the salience and pervasiveness of the figure of the Jew, experientially and conceptually, in the region's literary conversations about powe… Show more

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