Toward a Transnational Approach to the Study of Jewish Latin American Literature and Culture

This response paper explores the significance of Judit Bokser Liwerant, not just as an individual researcher and theorist, but as a highly collaborative intellectual who is able to bring together scholars from the social sciences, history, and the humanities. Literary and cultural critics would bene...

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Published in:Contemporary Jewry 2018-07, Vol.38 (2), p.213-219
Main Author: Lindstrom, Naomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Collaboration
Concepts
Cultural identity
Jewish Americans
Jewish literature
Latin American culture
Latin American literature
Nationalism
Religious Studies
Social Sciences
Sociology of Religion
THE MARSHALL SKLARE AWARD ADDRESS, 2017
Transnationalism
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Summary:This response paper explores the significance of Judit Bokser Liwerant, not just as an individual researcher and theorist, but as a highly collaborative intellectual who is able to bring together scholars from the social sciences, history, and the humanities. Literary and cultural critics would benefit from Liwerant's guidance to move away from ingrained "methodological nationalism" and to take into account the increasingly transnational flow of creative people, cultural products, and ideas. I sketch out some avenues of research that might be pursued by applying Liwerant's concepts to the study of Jewish Latin American literary and cultural phenomena.
ISSN:0147-1694
1876-5165
DOI:10.1007/s12397-018-9264-7