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Sun Inventions and Perfumes of Carthage: Two Novellas (Jewish Latin America) [Paperback]

Teresa Porzecanski (Author), Ilan Stavans (Series Editor, Introduction), Johnny Payne (Translator), Phyllis Silverstein (Translator)
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July 1, 2000 Jewish Latin America
Teresa Porzecanski brings a fresh new voice to the Jewish Latin America series. She writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Latin American cultures. Porzecanski is herself the daughter of immigrants who came to Montevideo in 1926 from the Baltics and Syria. Sun Inventions, her first novel, published in 1982, is a semiautobiographical story of an immigrant family from the multifaceted perspective of a woman who is an academic, a mother, a writer searching for meaning in the universe. Perfumes of Carthage (1994) tells the stories of Lunita Mualdeb and her Sephardic family and Angela Tejera [Weaver], whose name was given to her African grandfather by a Brazilian slave owner.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Jewish Latin America series

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  • Paperback: 203 pages
  • Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (July 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 082632181X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826321817
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,722,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Teresa Porzecanski. DATOS BIOBLIOGRAFICOS.


Teresa Porzecanski es escritora de ficción, además de Licenciada en Trabajo Social, Licenciada en Ciencias Antropológicas, Especialización en Etnología, Doctorada en Trabajo Social, Posgraduada en Hermenéutica,y Master en Tecnologías de la Información.
Se ha desempeñado como docente titular de grado y posgrado de Antropología en la Universidad de la República de Uruguay, la Universidad Católica D. A. Larrañaga, e Instituto Universitario CLAEH, así como conferencista y consultante en la Universidad de California, Northwestern University, Universidad de Gotemburgo, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Sergipe, Brasil, Universidad del Comahue, Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos,Universidad de Puerto Rico, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem, y FLACSO, Argentina.
En ensayo, ha publicado más de un centenar de artículos y varias obras de Ciencias Sociales y Trabajo Social. Entre otras, Desarrollo de comunidad y subculturas (1972), Mito y realidad en Ciencias Sociales (1973), Lógica y relato en Trabajo Social (1974), Curanderos y caníbales. Ensayos antropológicos sobre guaraníes, charrúas, bororos, terenas y adivinos.(1989,1993), Rituales, ensayos antropológicos sobre Umbanda, mitologías y Ciencias Sociales. (1991), Historias de vida: negros en el Uruguay, (1994), Historias de vida de inmigrantes judíos al Uruguay, (1986, 1988), Historias de la Vida Privada en el Uruguay (en colaboración con J.P. Barrán y G. Caetano) (1996,1997,1998), La vida comenzó acá: inmigrantes judíos en el Uruguay (2005), Historias de Exclusión: afrodescendientes en el Uruguay (2006) y Cuestiones del Corazón. Ensayos antropológicos (2007), El cuerpo y sus espejos. Estudios crítico-culturales (2008) (comp. y autor), Somos Cuerpo: itinerarios y límites (2011).
En ficción narrativa, ha publicado El Acertijo y otros cuentos (1967), Historias para mi abuela (1970), Esta manzana roja (1972), Intacto el corazón (1976), Construcciones (1979), Invención de los Soles (1982), Ciudad Impune (1986), Mesías en Montevideo (1989, 2005), La respiración es una fragua (1989), Perfumes de Cartago (1994, 1995, 2003), La piel del alma (1996), Nupcias en familia y otros cuentos (1998), Primeros Cuentos (1998), Una novela erótica(2000), Felicidades Fugaces (2002), Palabra líquida (2006, 2009), Su pequeña eternidad (2007), y Cosas imposibles de explicar y otros cuentos escogidos (2008).
Ha recibido reconocimientos del Ministerio Educación y Cultura del Uruguay(1967, 1976, 1995,2007, 2009), la Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (1986, 1989), American Field Service (1962-63), Centro Latino Americano de Trabajo Social (1974), Fulbright Grant (1988), Fundación Guggenheim (1992), Premio de la Crítica Bartolomé Hidalgo (1995), Premio "Morosoli" en Literatura (2004), Beca Residencia Bellagio de Fundación Rockefeller (2006). Textos suyos integran diversas antologías iberoamericanas y han sido traducidos al holandés, francés, inglés, alemán, portugués, rumano y húngaro.








 

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Perfumes" whose aroma will linger, June 17, 2001
"Sun Inventions / Perfumes of Carthage" brings together two novellas by Teresa Porzecanski, a talented Jewish writer from Uruguay. "Sun" has been translated into English by Johnny Payne, and "Perfumes" has been translated by Phyllis Silverstein. Ilan Stavans provides the introduction to this two-in-one volume.

"Sun Inventions" is the story of a female academic and her family situation. The stronger (and longer) of the two novellas is "Perfumes." This is an engrossing multigenerational saga about a Jewish family that emigrates from the Syrian city of Aleppo to Uruguay. The family story takes place against the backdrop of a Uruguayan revolutionary movement of the 1930s. With its colorful, conflicted characters and problematic relationships, "Perfumes" has a Faulkneresque flavor.

The title of "Perfumes" refers to the perfume shop run by one of the novella's principal characters. In this novella Porzecanski explores such issues as racial conflict, propaganda, oral tradition, Jewish ethics, and the power of sensory cues to trigger memories and visions. "Perfumes" is a fascinating and rewarding text that effectively blends tragic and comic elements. If you are interested in Jewish studies, Latin American literature, or contemporary fiction, check out this volume.

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