
Errant Destinations
Andrea Jeftanovic(Author)
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 23. April 2024
Book
Hardback
194 pages
978-1-6669-4226-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Lispector's 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.
Reviews / Votes
Errant Destinations by Andrea Jeftanovic is a force to be reckoned with as a new cornerstone of contemporary thought and narrative. Robustly translated, edited, and introduced by Jacqueline Nanfito, with a preface by Marjorie Agosin, this volume of creative non-fiction engages questions of identity, migration, travel, empathy, and memory, during an era of unprecedented global displacement. Anyone reading contemporary writers from Chile, the Americas, or frankly, any part of the world, must read this book. -- Anna Deeny Morales, Georgetown University In Errant Destinations, Andrea Jeftanovic productively complicates the travel narrative, with special emphasis on the stretches of each journey carried out on foot. These nine essays artfully portray a diversity of locales while taking on such difficult topics as the long-term aftereffects of repressive regimes, the struggle to find common ground between Israelis and Palestinians or the Jewish and Palestinian communities in Chile, and the relation between the fictional version of places and the real-world originals on which they are modeled. Jeftanovic brings her unobtrusive erudition, ironic eye, and writerly skill to these evocative texts, in which every detail observed is saturated with significance. -- Naomi Lindstrom, University of Texas at AustinMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 BW Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-4226-2 (9781666942262)
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Errant Destinations
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1st Edition
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Andrea Jeftanovic
Errant Destinations
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04/2024
1st Edition
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Persons
Andrea Jeftanovic is an author and professor of Latin American literature at the University of Santiago, Chile.
Jacqueline C. Nanfito is a translator and professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Case Western Reserve University.
Jacqueline C. Nanfito is a translator and professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Case Western Reserve University.
Author
Introduction
Foreword
Translation
Content
Chapter 1: Sarajevo Underground
Chapter 2: California Naked
Chapter 3: Watanabe's Eye
Chapter 4: The Rivers of Clarice Lispector
Chapter 5: Doors and Ellipses
Chapter 6: The Intimate Palestinian-Israeli Circle
Chapter 7: From a Bookshelf of Middle Eastern Texts
Chapter 8: Birds of Steel
Chapter 9: Nevertheless, Cuba
Chapter 2: California Naked
Chapter 3: Watanabe's Eye
Chapter 4: The Rivers of Clarice Lispector
Chapter 5: Doors and Ellipses
Chapter 6: The Intimate Palestinian-Israeli Circle
Chapter 7: From a Bookshelf of Middle Eastern Texts
Chapter 8: Birds of Steel
Chapter 9: Nevertheless, Cuba