Ethnicity, Aesthetics, and Argentine National Identity in Ricardo Halacâs Early Plays

Silvina Schammah Gesser

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Chapter 5 Ethnicity, Aesthetics, and Argentine National Identity in Ricardo Halacâs Early Plays

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Pages:: 114â142

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004724815_007

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The present study focuses on a neglected group within the first and second generations of Argentine Jews of Middle Eastern origins born in the capital of Argentina. It argues that their ethnic identification can be best understood as a personal definition pertaining to the individual rather than as an explicit statement of belonging or affiliation to a specific community that may provide a false sense of cohesiveness and homogeneity. The trajectories of disaffiliated Jews with origins in the Middle East and North Africa, as is the case of Ricardo Halac (born 1935), undoubtedly the most prestigious Sephardic playwright of Argentina, help reveal a highly intriguing, multifaceted, and heterodox portrait of the early generations of migrants from the Middle East and their descendants. By reconstructing the initial stages of his career, and the social and aesthetic context in which his first plays appeared, this chapter discusses how ethnicity and national identity filter through and maintain a dialogue with Halacâs plays and writing in the always politically volatile and culturally competitive city of Buenos Aires.

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Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America

Series:Â Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004724815

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 May 2025

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