How strange the change : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplan, Marc, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yiddish literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature.

Comparative literature--Yiddish and African.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--African and Yiddish.

Literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Minority authors.

Physical Description:

xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures

Defining peripheral modernism

One tale, two tellers

Haskole and Negritude compared

Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude

Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters

Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence

Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the "minor" in minority literatures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804774765

0804774765

OCLC:

689005590