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

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Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of 19th-century Yiddish literature and 20th-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities betwe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caplan, Marc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Colección:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Temas:
1800-1999
Yiddish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Yiddish and African.
Comparative literature > African and Yiddish.
Literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Littérature yiddish > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature africaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
African literature
Literature > Minority authors
Yiddish literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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