Teresa Porzecanski
Teresa Porzecanski (born 1945)[1] is a Uruguayan anthropologist and writer. From an Ashkenazi[2] and Sephardic Jewish family (her father was originally from Libau and her mother from Syria[1]), her works have included a focus on the Jewish communities of Uruguay.[3] She is a professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay.[4]
She grew up in Montevideo.[4] From 1978-1981, she collected oral histories of Jewish immigrants which was published as Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay in its first edition in Spanish in 1986.[5] In a review for the American Jewish Archives, Alejandro Lilienthal called it a good introduction to the subject, but criticized the work as not containing any original analysis; outside of the transcriptions of the oral histories, the context in the introduction was simply compiled work that others had previously published.[6]
Her fiction is part of a tradition of works expressing erotic desires created by Uruguayan women.[7]
In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship,[8] during which she studied the Sephardim and rabbinic lore.[1] She has also received a Fulbright scholarship.[2]
Selected works
Fiction
- The Riddle and other stories (1967)
- Constructions (Constucciones) (1979)
- Sun Inventions (La invention de los soles) (1982)
- An Erotic Novel (Una novela erotica) (1986)
- Messiah in Montevideo (Mesias en Montevideo) (1989)
- Breath is a Forge (La respiracion es una fragua) (1989)
- Perfumes of Carthage (Perfumes de Cartago) (1994)
Nonfiction
- Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay (La vida empezo aca: Inmigrantes judios al Uruguay: Historias de vida y perspectiva antropologica de la conformacion de la communidad judia uruguya, contrastes culturales ye procesos de enculturacion) (2nd ed, 1986; 2005)
References
- ^ a b c Lockhart, Darrell B. (2013-08-21). Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. pp. 483–. ISBN 9781134754274. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ a b Florinda F. Goldberg. "Porzecanski, Teresa". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jewish Virtual Library / The Gale Group. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Young, Richard; Cisneros, Odile (2010-12-18). Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. pp. 702–. ISBN 9780810874985. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ a b Rosa, Debora Cordeiro (2012-04-19). Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739172988. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Agosín, Marjorie (1999). Passion, Memory, and Identity. UNM Press. pp. 33–. ISBN 9780826320490. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Alejandro Lilienthal. "Those who did not make it to Ellis Island: Jewish Life South of the Rio Grande" (PDF). American Jewish Archives (1989).
- ^ Valverde, Estela (2004). "'Mujeres de mucha monta': Women expressing their erotic desires". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 10 (1): 23–42. doi:10.1080/13260219.2004.10429979. ISSN 1326-0219.
- ^ "1992 Fellowships". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 23 March 2014.