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Teresa Porzecanski

Teresa Porzecanski

Uruguayan anthropologist and writer (born 5 May 1945)

Teresa Porzecanski (born 5 de May 1945)[1] is an Uruguayan anthropologist, profesor and writer.

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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, afrodescendant minorities, prejudice and ethnic issues.[3] She has been is a professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay.,[4] Universidad de la Republica, CLAEH, and various universities in Argentina, Brazil, Perú, México, United States, Puerto Rico, Sweden, and Israel.

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, outside of the transcriptions of the oral histories.[6]

Her fiction is part of a tradition of works exploring identities and migration maladjustments, prejudice against minorities, and women interior worlds.[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] as well as a Rockefeller Residency Grant in Bellagio, Italy, to write her fiction. She received five awards by the Ministry of Education of Uruguay, two awards by the Municipality of Montevideo, the Critics Award Bartolomé Hidalgo (1995) and the Morosoli Award for Literature (2004).

Selected works

Fiction

  • 1967, The Riddle and other stories (El acertijo y otros cuentos)
  • 1979, Constructions (Construcciones)
  • 1981, Sun Inventions (Invención de los soles)
  • 1986, An Erotic Novel (Una novela erótica)
  • 1989, Messiah in Montevideo (Mesías en Montevideo)
  • 1989, Breath is a Forge (La respiración es una fragua)
  • 1994, Perfumes of Cartaghe (Perfumes de Cartago)
  • 1996, The skin of the soul (La piel del alma)
  • 2002, Fleeting happiness (Felicidades fugaces)

Nonfiction

  • 1986, Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay (La vida empezó acá : inmigrantes judíos al Uruguay : historias de vida y perspectiva antropológica de la conformación de la comunidad judía uruguaya, contrastes culturales y procesos de enculturación) (2nd ed, 2005)
  • 2004, Las religiones en el Uruguay: algunas aproximaciones (in Spanish). Montevideo: La Gotera. 2004. ISBN 978-9974-7815-8-0. (with Pablo Dabezies, Gerardo Caetano, and other authors).

References

  1. [1]
    Lockhart, Darrell B. (2013-08-21). Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. pp. 483–. ISBN 9781134754274. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  2. [2]
    Florinda F. Goldberg. "Porzecanski, Teresa". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jewish Virtual Library / The Gale Group. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    Agosín, Marjorie (1999). Passion, Memory, and Identity. UNM Press. pp. 33–. ISBN 9780826320490. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  6. [6]
    Alejandro Lilienthal. "Those who did not make it to Ellis Island: Jewish Life South of the Rio Grande" (PDF). American Jewish Archives (1989).
  7. [7]
    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. S2CID 143671863.
  8. [8]
    "1992 Fellowships". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
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