En la conversación fluía. Arte verbal, consideraciones emic y procesos conmemorativos judíos argentinos

Abstract

This article examines the connections between the present and the past
established by Argentine Jews through the performance of verbal art expressions
and metapragmatic considerations about them. The work focuses specifically on
how certain expressions of the poetics of speech shape group memory. In particular,
it deals with one narrative genre according to the utterers' definition and their
use of it. Thus, the article shows the ways by means of which through the performance
of speech play in informal contexts, the narrators, Argentine born children of
Jewish immigrants, establish axes of continuity and discontinuity with different pasts:
one experienced by the speakers themselves or their ancestors, another one
pertaining to Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and one originated in sacred texts.