Isaac Unbound: Patriarchal Traditions in the Latin American Jewish Novel

by Lois Baer Barr

Presenting in-depth, systematic study of patriarchy in novels of contemporary South American Jewish writers, the author considers the works of Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Isaac Goldemberg (Peru), Teresa Porzecanski (Uruguay), Moacyr Scliar (Brazil), and Gerardo Mario Goloboff, Alicia Steimberg, and Mario Szichman (Argentina). "Barr successfully melds the elements of Jewish tradition and Latin American literary models". -- Darrel B. Lockhart, author of Latin American Jewish Women's Issues

201 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Lois Baer Barr is a professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College. Her critical study, Isaac Unbound: Patriarchal Traditions in the Latin American Jewish Novel, was published by Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies in 1995. She was co-executive producer of a documentary about Jewish singer and folklorist Isa Kremer, Isa: The People's Diva, (2000) distributed by Facets Multimedia.

She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for fiction and poetry. Her stories, essays, and poems appear in English and Spanish in literary reviews, web zines, anthologies, and on Pace buses in Chicago's North Shore as a winner of the 2014 Poetry that Moves Contest of Highland Park Poetry. She lives in Riverwoods, Illinois with her husband Lew and likes to write, bike, and paint, but not at the same time.