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LEON, Denise. Towards a poetics of distance or mystical lineage of Migraciones (2022) by Gloria Gervitz. Lit. mex [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.2, pp.127-145.  Epub 05-Abr-2024. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2023.34.2/0023s01x7926.

In this essay I will focus on the ways in which the Judeo-Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz (1943-2022) appropriates the Judeo-Christian mystical tradition and inscribes it in her poetic work gathered under the title of Migrations. In The Footprint of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas contrasts the mythical figures of Ulysses and Abraham, finding there something like a basic difference between Greek thought and Jewish thought. Unlike Ulysses, who will manage to return to his native Ithaca transformed, Abraham leaves his birthplace to throw himself into a radical exile with no turning back. Thus, the figure of the wandering subject becomes a defining feature of that floating, vague and elusive nation of Judaism. It is in this specific direction that I am interested in enlightening the ways in which Gervitz’s poetry hosts the concrete and metaphorical experiences of diasporas and displacements of a female genealogy claiming the denied paths and itineraries of the women in the family.

Palabras llave : Jewish Latin American Literature; Gloria Gervitz; Poetry; Exile; Mysticism.

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