Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The “Latin Americanization” of the Holocaust
	Latin American Holocaust Consciousness— Comparative, Paradigmatic, Political
	Latin American Holocaust Consciousness in Global Perspective
	Holocaust Comparisons and the Shadow of Denialism
	Latin Americanism after Eichmann: Cold War Victims and Holocaust Victims
	Structure of the Book
Chapter One: The Demands of the Times: Jewish Holocaust Discourse in Dictatorship and Early-Transition Argentina, 1976–1985
	1976–1979: Sounding the Alarm
	Jacobo Timerman and “Anti-Semitism without Soap”
	The DAIA’s Response: Never Again “Jews of Silence”
	Progressive Jewish Voices—“Isms” beyond Judaism
	Marshall Meyer and Jewish Human Rights
	1981–1985: The Holocaust in the Early Transitional Years
	Victims and Heroes
	Conclusion
Chapter Two: Holocaust Consciousness as Critical Consciousness in Post-dictatorship Argentina, 1995–2005
	Human Rights and the Holocaust in Argentina
	Sarlo, Shoah, and the Critique of the Testimonial “I”
	Vezzetti and the Problem of the Victim in Argentina
	Confines 1995–1998: Do Not Forget the Forgotten
	Conclusion
Chapter Three: José Emilio Pacheco, Tununa Mercado, and Holocaust Testimony at the Mexico-Argentina Crossroads
	Pacheco, the Holocaust, and the Memory of 1968
	Metafictional Destabilizations in Morirás lejos
	Pacheco on Industrial Modernity and Global Complicity in the Vietnam Era
	Testimony Insists: The Changes from 1967 to 1977
	The Memory Imperative Post-1968
	Tununa Mercado: Solidarity and the Testimonial Situation
	Mexico as Political Refuge
	1975: Four Holocaust Testimonies
	The Politics of Survivor Testimonies
	Conclusion
Chapter Four: Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil’s “Maya Holocaust”: Victims and Vanquished in Post-genocide Guatemala
	Victims and Vanquished in Cold War Historiography
	The “Maya Holocaust” under Debate
	The Complex Textual History of the “Maya Holocaust”
	The Semantics of Genocide, Holocaust, Conquest
	Conclusion
Chapter Five: Holocaust Testimony and Maya Testimony between the U.S. and Guatemala
	Revisiting Stoll-Menchú: Holocaust Testimony and “Nontransparent Truths”
	The Shoah-FAFG Testimonies
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index