¿Por la boca del padre? Tamara Kamenszain y las lenguas del judaísmo

• Main Author: Adriana Kanzepolsky
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2019-01-01
• Series: Cuadernos LIRICO
• Subjects: Father; ghetto; Jewish condition; narrative; intimacy
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lirico/6700

By the mouth of the father? Tamara Kamenszain and the languages of Judaism. This article inquiries which place "the Jewish" occupies in Tamara Kamenszain´s poetry, as a condition inherited from the father and handed down, even grudgingly. Assuming this condition is reflected in Tamara´s poems by the recurrence of a series of images / concepts, among which the signifier “ghetto” stands out, therewith, the Jewish condition, as a narrative recovering a past and a genealogy, opens itself into a question of the order of procedure: to inquire the poem as an appropriate space to narrate one's own life and, also, whether it is a favourable space or not to the inscription of the intimate.