Games of Inheritance
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19th Century
20th Century
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aesthetics
Argentine literature
Author_Yitzhak Lewis
authorship
Borges and the Judaic
Borges' perspective
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colonialism
contemporary Argentinian debates
cultural identity
early 20th century
empire
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Games of Inheritance
historical context
intellectual engagement
Jewish influences
Jewish literary traditions
jewish studies
Jorge Luis Borges
judiasm
kabbalah
literary analysis
literary criticism
literary themes
literary tradition
literature
literature and tradition
literature debates
mysticism
nationalism
oeuvre
poetic utility
populism
post-colonialism
postcolonialism
scholarly focus
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781978843950
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual traditions, highlighting the role of this engagement in developing and expressing his views on these questions. The book argues that the primary relevance of Borges’s persistent reference to “the Judaic” is not for understanding his attitude toward Jews and Judaism but for understanding his position in contemporary Argentinian debates about nationalism and literature, empire and postcolonialism, and populism and aesthetics. By broadening the frame of Borges and the Judaic, this book shifts the scholarly focus to the poetic utility of Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual traditions. This allows a better understanding of the nuance of his views on the issues that most animate his oeuvre: authorship and writing, literature and tradition.
YITZHAK LEWIS is an assistant professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University, China. He is the author of A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity.
