Full title: Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation / Claudio Lomnitz.

Author/creator: Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio.

Call Numbers: G 2021/0889

Record Identifier: 74VKazqb4MQX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 445 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm, , , , , Introduction : the language of paradise -- Unstable affiliations -- Why Misha left -- Emancipation and emigration -- Their First America -- Lisa Noemí Milstein -- The Amauta -- Jewish Americanism -- Expulsion -- Adulthood -- Genocide -- The national disease -- Family life -- The need for a new world -- The limits of adaptation -- The limits of translation -- Dialectic of silence -- Israel -- Larissa and Cinna -- Return to Colombia -- Marginal survival -- My nationality -- God's face -- Geology of Machu Picchu -- Sina and Cinna -- Sina Aronsfrau -- What's in a name? -- The Aronsfrau murder -- Envy -- Poor Cinna -- Author of my days -- Bigger smaller -- Mesohippus -- Rainbow scarab -- Final (bar mitzvah).

Publishers: New York : Other Press, [2021]

Notes: "An earlier version of this book was published in Spanish in 2018 by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, Mexico"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographic references. Critics' Picks

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DDC: 980.004924

MMS ID: 991024397615702626