Toward a Transnational Approach to the Study of Jewish Latin American Literature and Culture

Abstract

This response paper explores the significance of Judit Bokser Liwerant, not just as an individual researcher and theorist, but as a highly collaborative intellectual who is able to bring together scholars from the social sciences, history, and the humanities. Literary and cultural critics would benefit from Liwerant’s guidance to move away from ingrained “methodological nationalism” and to take into account the increasingly transnational flow of creative people, cultural products, and ideas. I sketch out some avenues of research that might be pursued by applying Liwerant’s concepts to the study of Jewish Latin American literary and cultural phenomena.