How Strange the Change : Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms /

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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 unex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caplan, Marc (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Temas:
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > African and Yiddish.
Comparative literature > Yiddish and African.
Literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Yiddish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Apples and Oranges: On Comparing Yiddish and African Literatures
  • One. Defining Peripheral Modernism
  • Two. One Tale, Two Tellers
  • Conclusion
  • Three. Haskole and Negritude Compared
  • Four. Education and Initiation in the Narratives of Haskole and Negritude
  • Conclusion
  • Five. Mendele's Mare and Soyinka's Interpreters
  • Six. Mendele's Benjamin the Third and Kourouma's Suns of Independence
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion. At the Limits of the Periphery The Future of the "Minor" in Minority Literatures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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