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• W4386776965 abstract "Reviewed by: The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky Joanna Zofia Spyra (bio) Amy K. Kaminsky The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. xviii, 244 pp. In The Other/Argentina, Amy K. Kaminsky looks at a variety of Argentine literary works and other cultural productions (films, visual arts) that relate to the narratives of gender, sexuality, Jewishness and modernity. Her well-chosen selection of sources presents the representation and modification of the gendered Jewish body across time and space in the making of Argentina as a modern nation. “Argentineity slips into Jewishness, just as Jewishness is another modality of Argentineity,” claims the author (p. 1), and she explores this notion throughout the book’s eight chapters by providing examples of its diverse meanings. In making what were surely some difficult decisions regarding which authors and what works to analyze, Kaminsky has chosen to focus not only on self-identified Jews, but also on the significance of Jews, Judaism and Jewishness for non-Jewish authors. Her coherent narrative maneuvers masterfully within various texts written across different time periods, forswearing lengthy, detailed summaries of individual works in favor of helping the reader navigate through and find the connections between them. Jewish immigrants in Argentina struggled with the ambiguity of their minority status and the contradictory categories or labels imposed upon them. Kaminsky focuses on narratives of difference and similarity that position Jews as both the Other and the mainstream of the society. Race and ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality are crucial ingredients in this conversation. Her reading of what she defines as the “two foundational texts of Argentine Jewishness” (p. 4), Julián Martel’s The Stock Market (La bolsa, 1891) and Alberto Gerchunoff’s The Jewish Gaucho of the Pampas (Los gauchos judíos, 1910), sets a tone and creates a framework for the analyses that follow. In stark contrast to one another, the first book associates Jews with urbanization, degeneracy, corruption, conspiracy, deceit, anxiety and threat, while the second stresses the Jewish contribution to life in the countryside, sympathy for the land, development, fertility, bodily health, and traditional norms [End Page 139] of masculinity and femininity. While noting these stories’ illustration of opposing claims to “authentic Argentineity,” Kaminsky also points to their shared heteronormativity and emphasis on such values as sexuality as a means of reproduction and women’s desirability. Considerable discussion is devoted to exploring the meaning of modernity in the Argentine context. Paradoxically, the paired social anxiety around Jewish sex work and Jewish cosmopolitanism is quintessentially modern and constitutes a key element in Argentina’s path to modernity. Jewish Argentines or Argentine Jews? Defining Jewish identity in relation to other identities has always been problematic, and the author shares some of the most common struggles that scholars have had with this issue. The first digital files she gathered for her project were in a folder labeled “Jewish Argentina.” The title The Other/Argentina, she confesses, is a product of her internal disputes and “the energizing and exhausting tension between unitary solidity on the one hand and instability and internal fracture on the other, not just of Jewishness but of Argentina as a nation” (p. 52). She offers compelling insights into the process of “self-fashioning” and constructing Jewish identity according to a set of socially acceptable standards. In this case, “visibility is a prerequisite to legibility” (p. 91), and the representation of Jews plays an important role in harmonizing what it means to be Jewish and Argentine. Visual arts such as Mirta Kupferminc’s paintings (On the way, 2001; Archeology of the Journey, 2018) help Kaminsky convey a message about the importance of memory and family in interrogating one’s roots. Two chapters are dedicated to the conceptualization of what Kaminsky calls “incidental” and “embedded” Jewishness, where embeddedness refers to something “deeply meaningful” (p. 141) and firmly attached, but not necessarily in totality. Both categories, adds Kaminsky, can be unspoken, but Jewish incidentality remains more in the background and may even reach the point of being invisible. The last chapter of the..." @default.
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• W4386776965 title "The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky (review)" @default.
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