Publication Title

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Latin American Studies

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Keywords

Childhood, Guatemala, Indigeneity, Jewishness, Memory

Abstract

This article analyzes Eduardo Halfon's Mañana nunca lo hablamos (2011) arguing that Hal/on offers a retrospective view of Guatemala's Civil War ("la violencia") from a Jewish perspective that is distinct from an indigenous perspective. Nonetheless, this study shows to what extent Halfon's work posits the possibility of an affective identification between Jews and indigenous populations in the context of the violent political conflict The conclusion maintains that the work offers new possibilities for thinking through the relationship between ethnicity and politics, a conceptual relationship that until now has been a critical lacuna within analyses of Jewish Latin American cultural productions.

Copyright Note

This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Required Publisher's Statement

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v42i1.2035

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