Print version: Kaminsky, Amy K. The Other/Argentina Albany : State University of New York Press,c2021 ISBN 9781438483290
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Planting Wheat and Reaping Doctors: Another Way of Being Argentine -- 2 Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Anxiety -- 3 Provisional Identity -- 4 Family Stories and the Invention of Memory -- 5 Jewish Legibility and Argentine Self-Fashioning -- 6 Incidental Jewishness -- 7 Embedded Jewishness: Memory and the State in Times of Terror -- 8 Troubling Difference: Jewishness, Gender, and Transgressive Sexuality -- By Way of Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation..