Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.

About the author

Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism.

Product details

• Authors: Estelle Tarica, Tarica Estelle
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781438487946
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8794-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Suny Latin American and Iberia; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, South America, Latin America, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Caribbean islands, The Holocaust, Literature: history & criticism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Literature: history and criticism, Central America, Mexico and Central America, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust