Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The "Latin Americanization" of the Holocaust1. The Demands of the Times: Jewish Holocaust Discourse in Dictatorship and Early-Transition Argentina, 1976–19852. Holocaust Consciousness as Critical Consciousness in Post-dictatorship Argentina, 1995–20053. José Emilio Pacheco, Tununa Mercado, and Holocaust Testimony at the Mexico-Argentina Crossroads4. Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil's "Maya Holocaust": Victims and Vanquished in Post-genocide Guatemala5. Holocaust Testimony and Maya Testimony between the U.S. and GuatemalaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This volume not only expands the field of Holocaust Studies by linking it to Latin American studies but also counters recent claims in postcolonial studies that the Holocaust was a European phenomenon and is not important to postcolonial consciousness. Estelle Tarica's excavation of the concepts underpinning various uses of Holocaust-era terminology to discuss current political events in Latin America is both timely and necessary." — Kitty Millet, author of The Victims of Slavery, Colonization, and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution