On the edge of the Holocaust : the Shoah in Latin American literature and culture / Edna Aizenberg.

Shoah in Latin American literature and culture

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]

xiv, 182 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Preface: didn't all the Nazis go to Argentina? -- "Deutsches requiem": Jorge Luis Borges "represents" the Shoah -- Besieged in Berne: Clarice Lispector and the murmur of catastrophe -- Good-bye Jewish gaucho: Alberto Gerchunoff, anti-Nazi -- Diplomacy, literature, rescue: João Guimarães Rosa, Consul in Hamburg -- Not just children's poetry: Gabriela Mistral, consul in Nice -- Epilogue: the anti-Nazis were there too.

Includes bibliographical references and index.