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HOUVENAGHEL, E. Helena  e  SERLET, Florien. Allegorical Topography of the Exclusion of the Other:Inland by Angelina Muñiz Huberman. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2021, n.23, pp.7-20.  Epub 16-Dez-2021. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i23.372.

The work of Jewish-Mexican writer Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (France, 1936) stands out for two contributions: one of a thematic nature, namely the transmission of Jewish culture and thought, and the other of a formal nature, namely ‘transgeneric’ writing via the fusion of literary genres. How do these contributions relate to each other? One of Muñiz-Huberman’s early works, Tierra adentro (Inland, 1977), seems to point out toward a process of mutual reinforcement in which the allegory plays a key role. Tierra adentro, on the literal level, narrates how a Sephardic Jew is expulsed from the Spain of the Golden Age and makes his way to Holy Land. On the secondary level, it simultaneously evokes the persecution of the Askhenazi Jews in the 20th century. The allegorical mode encourages an ethical reflection on the repetitive character of the pattern of expulsion and persecution of the Jewish community throughout history, and simultaneously stimulates the fusion of the traditional literary genres.

Palavras-chave : Angelina Muñiz-Huberman; transgeneric writing; allegory; ethics; Jewish culture; exclusion of the other.