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Description of  Errant Destinations (Jewish Women in the Americas)

166694226X rar Errant Destinations is a collection of nine literary chronicles in which contemporary Chilean-Jewish author Andrea Jeftanovic reflects on travel in its multiple variations, with reference to diverse fields of study, including references to cinema, literature, and the visual arts. Jeftanovic transforms travel into an art form, inviting the reader to participate in literary and geographical encounters in foreign places such as the tunnel that unites Sarajevo bombarded during the Balkan War the diffuse maritime delineation between Chile and Peru an organization for relatives of victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict the hidden corners of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispectors characters the hotel room in Cienfuegos where Castro stayed in two distinct historical moments and 1970s California, where the author endeavors to find Janis Joplin. Combining chronicle with fiction and testimony, the author employs a perceptive and personal gaze that reveals an extraordinary capacity to explore and reveal the many facets and recesses of the human psyche. Read more