“The Benevolent Self Was a Disgrace beyond Measure for Every Argentine Jew”: Between the Need to Rem...
“The Benevolent Self Was a Disgrace beyond Measure for Every Argentine Jew”: Between the Need to Remember and the Desire to Forget in Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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English
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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases (2007) is a novel structured around two interconnected plots. One of them is the tragedy of the desaparecidos — the disappeared — that began in 1976, the year when general Jorge Rafael Videla came to power after deposing María Estela Martínez de Perón; until early 1981 Videla’s junta was responsible...
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“The Benevolent Self Was a Disgrace beyond Measure for Every Argentine Jew”: Between the Need to Remember and the Desire to Forget in Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1652212514
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1652212514
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1565-3668,1936-9247
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1936-9247
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10.1353/pan.2015.0012
