The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition:

Abstract

This chapter starts with formulating the following hypothesis: at its best, Jewish Latin American literature is doubly marginal, because of the peripheral nature of both Jewish and Latin American letters vis-a-vis the European center and Occidental traditions. In his own work, Sergio Chejfec repeatedly mines the border - a zone between cultures and languages, between past and present, between traditions and religions - to establish a space wherein a literature can emerge. By implication, this border zone is where Jewish Latin American literature might persist without falling into self-ghettoizing tendencies. This is the border zone that the chapter explores. Keywords:Jewish Latin American; occidental traditions; Sergio Chejfec