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Clarice Lispector on Jewishness after the Shoah: A Reading of “Perdoando Deus”

  • Sebastian Musch
  • Bieke Willem

Date Published:

3 June, 2018

Abstract:

 

 

This article examines the view of the Brazilian Jewish author Clarice Lispector on the triangular relation between Jewishness, the Shoah and the chosenness of the Jewish people by combining biographical evidence with a close reading of her short story “Perdoando Deus.” Through an analysis of allegorical motifs, “Perdoando Deus” emerges as a historical, philosophical, and personal (anti)theological process. As such, this short story, mostly overlooked due to its obscurity, marks a watershed in Lispector’s oeuvre in terms of the recognition of her Jewishness — which she defines not as a religion but as an ethnic category and a collectivity of survivors.

 

June 2018: Sebastian Musch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, Germany. He wrote his dissertation on Jewish Responses to Buddhism in German Culture 1890-1940 at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg. He has held fellowships at the University of Haifa, UC Berkeley, and the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College, among others. His research focuses on German-Jewish culture and intellectual history of the 20th century.

 

June 2018: Bieke Willem is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. In 2016 she was a postdoc at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature and visual culture, especially of the Southern Cone. Her first monograph, El espacio narrativo en la novela chilena postdictatorial, was published in 2016 by Brill.

 

 

 

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Volume 16, issue 1
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