Corpus de literatura judía latinoamericana sobre memoria, Holocausto y colonialismo (dataset)

Abstract

This dataset contains a curated corpus of 43 literary works by Jewish Latin American authors, published between 1991 and 2025, and selected for their relevance to the study of Holocaust memory, colonialism, and multidirectional memory practices. Each record includes standardized metadata fields—author, title, year of publication, country of origin, and a thematic annotation—allowing structured analysis of how Jewish Latin American literature articulates transnational and intergenerational memory processes. The corpus spans multiple genres (novels, memoirs, essays, graphic narratives) and represents authors from Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, enabling comparative regional analysis. The thematic summaries included in the dataset classify works according to key research dimensions, including: representations of the Holocaust and postmemory; articulations of Jewish diaspora histories; intersections between Holocaust remembrance and Latin American political violence (dictatorships, civil wars, state terrorism); multilingual identity configurations (Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, English); and engagements with colonial and racial structures, including indigenous dispossession and settler colonial narratives.