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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplan, Marc.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought with them processes of modernization that were already well advanced elsewhere. Yiddish and African writers reacted to the liberating potential of modernity and the burdens of imperial authority

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804782555

0804782555

OCLC:

755413393