Passion and memory : Latin American Jewish writers / Marjorie Agosin -- On separate ground / Ilan Stavans -- Mapping the Jewish female voice in contemporary Mexican narrative / Magdalena Maiz-Peņa -- Recent Argentine women writers of Jewish descent / David William Foster -- Brazilian Jewish women writers at the crossroads / Regina Igel -- Clarice Lispector's Jewish universe : passion in search of narrative identity / Nelson Vieira -- Emigrant memory : Jewish women writers in Chile and Uruguay / Elizabeth Rosa Horan -- Venezuelan Jewish women writers and the search for heritage / Joan Esther Friedman -- In search of the Cuban Jewish woman writer : a trialogue/un triologo / Ruth Behar, Ester Shapiro Rok, and Rosa Lowinger.