{"id":9923,"date":"2021-06-11T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imex-revista.com\/encuentros-en-comala-i\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T08:49:38","slug":"encounters-in-comala-i-jacobo-sefami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imex-revista.com\/en\/encounters-in-comala-i-jacobo-sefami\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounters in Comala I | Interview with Jacobo Sefam\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”31″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”repeat” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”slow” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” top_padding=”50″ bottom_padding=”30″ overlay_strength=”1″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_animated_title heading_tag=”h2″ style=”color-strip-reveal” color=”Accent-Color” text=”Encounters in Comala I | Interview with Jacobo Sefam\u00ed (26:34)”][vc_column_text]At the launch of our podcast we had the opportunity to talk with Mexican writer and professor Jacobo Sefam\u00ed. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]\n

Biograf\u00eda Jacobo Sefam\u00ed<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"Born in Mexico City in 1957, the writer Jacobo Sefam\u00ed, a descendant of Sephardic Jews who emigrated from Turkey and Syria to the Mexican capital, is today Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California at Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and a B.A. in Hispanic Letters from the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico. Beyond academia, his literary work is undoubtedly marked by his own biography. For that nostalgic journey, and at the same time full of humor, that the author undertakes in search of his identity through the novel, as in his 2004 text Los doliente<\/em>s, in which Sefam\u00ed narrates the mourning rituals of the Syrian Jewish community in Mexico. But it is not the only means of literary transport that the author chooses to escort the reader on this journey to the origins. The short story also becomes a suitable vehicle to immerse us in the contrasts proposed by the chronicles of that journey to Syria that the author draws in his work Por tierras extra\u00f1as<\/em> (2019). And, of course, poetry to give shape to those vestiges of a family tragedy that for the author’s memory are impossible to erase, as in his work Mili en lo inacabado mutante<\/em> (2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

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