The Intersection of Jewish Ethnicity and Genderqueer Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Abstract
This study treats the tension between religion and sexuality, tradition and modernity, ethnicity and gender, and power and repression in contemporary Brazilian-Jewish prose fiction. Owing to the numerous contradictory social variables that cross and influence social and personal identities, often making them porous and ambiguous, this essay addresses social contradictions and conflicts via the theoretical lens of “intersectionality,” wherein the collision of ethnicity, prejudice, power, and sexuality frequently result in diverse forms of social and personal injustices as well as asymmetrical identities. With succinct analyses of four narratives by Brazilian writers of Jewish ascendency, the interpretations here illustrate the challenges confronting social characters who invariably collide with different perspectives and experiences as they construct their own identities. Given Brazil’s multicultural and multiethnic society, these authors ultimately question the viability of ever attaining sincere social congress.
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Articles in the same Issue
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- Table of Contents
- ARTICLES
- Cuidado con el goy. Subtramas judías en el cine argentino de los años 1960
- La casa Modesa de Fina Warschaver: Experiencias femeninas de la temporalidad desde una perspectiva feminista, comunista y judía
- Traducción y resistencia del judeo-español en la literatura del siglo XXI (Archiviología traductológica de la literatura judeoespañola contemporánea)
- “My grandmother lights the Shabbos candles from her death and looks at me”: Postmemory in Gloria Gervitz’s Migraciones
- The Intersection of Jewish Ethnicity and Genderqueer Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Rac, Katalin F., and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, eds. 2022. Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses
- Witte, Michael, ed. 2023. ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Senkman, Leonardo, ed. 2023. Ires y venires: Escrituras migrantes latinoamericanas judías
- Adrián Krupnik. 2023. Between Two Homelands: Argentine Migration to and from Israel
- Gabbay, Cynthia, ed. 2022. Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice
- McGee Deutsch, Sandra. 2023. Gendering Antifascism: Women’s Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918–1947
- Contributors
- Latin American Jewish Heritage Material Repositories Reference List
Articles in the same Issue
- Title
- Table of Contents
- ARTICLES
- Cuidado con el goy. Subtramas judías en el cine argentino de los años 1960
- La casa Modesa de Fina Warschaver: Experiencias femeninas de la temporalidad desde una perspectiva feminista, comunista y judía
- Traducción y resistencia del judeo-español en la literatura del siglo XXI (Archiviología traductológica de la literatura judeoespañola contemporánea)
- “My grandmother lights the Shabbos candles from her death and looks at me”: Postmemory in Gloria Gervitz’s Migraciones
- The Intersection of Jewish Ethnicity and Genderqueer Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Rac, Katalin F., and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, eds. 2022. Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses
- Witte, Michael, ed. 2023. ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Senkman, Leonardo, ed. 2023. Ires y venires: Escrituras migrantes latinoamericanas judías
- Adrián Krupnik. 2023. Between Two Homelands: Argentine Migration to and from Israel
- Gabbay, Cynthia, ed. 2022. Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice
- McGee Deutsch, Sandra. 2023. Gendering Antifascism: Women’s Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918–1947
- Contributors
- Latin American Jewish Heritage Material Repositories Reference List
