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Call It English : The Languages of Jewish American Literature /

Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both imm...

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Autor principal: Wirth-Nesher, Hana, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America; CHAPTER 2: "I like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!"; CHAPTER 3: "I learned at least to think in English without an accent"; CHAPTER 4: "Christ, it's a Kid!"--Chad Godya.; CHAPTER 5: "Here I am!"--Hineni; CHAPTER 6: "Aloud she uttered it"-- (omitted) --Hashem; CHAPTER 7: Sounding Letters; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 
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