Publications

A analysis on the decade of the 1930s in the form of a newspaper, with sections treating simultaneous happenings in politics (the Stavisky affair), entertainment (music halls), literature (Celine and Malraux), travel (colonialism),fashion (photography),spectacles (expositions, cinema), and so on. Key films open each section and provide an iconography and themes. This book argues for a new historiography of periods.

In Hebrew poetry, steeped in the communal, there is no work more classic than “In the City of Slaughter” (1903), H.N. Bialik’s work of poetic rhetoric and historical influence of immense magnitude. Its role in establishing the national Zionist ethos that is at the core of Israeli cultural identity to this day is enormous.

This book presents a series of surprising encounters with the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg, one of the great Hebrew poets of the twentieth century, and its multifaceted presence on the seam between the politic and the aesthetic. This book’s suggested readings of Greenberg’s oeuvre exposing how, through his radical fascist perspective, he created astoundingly impressive work in its width and breadth while developing, unexpectedly through Hebrew culture’s radical right wing perspective, a powerful stance representing and containing the totality of modern day Jewish existence.

A result of his fruitful work as a researcher and critic of Latin American literature, González Echevarría presents a collection of insightful essays in which he analyses, with great clarity, the narrative works of the Latin American authors represented, from el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Pedro Mártir de Anglería to Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy, who contributed to the creation of a universal Latin American voice.

By illuminating both the process of canon formation and the voices excluded from the canon this book offers a powerful alternative reading of twentieth century Hebrew fiction. A people’s literary texts can play a dramatic role in nation building, as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and consolidated moments in the shaping of national identity.