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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caplan, Marc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
1800-1999
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.
Littérature africaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Littérature yiddish > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
African literature
Literature > Minority authors
Yiddish literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apples and Oranges: On Comparing Yiddish and African Literatures; Part One: The Origin of Stories: A Story of Origins; 1. Defining Peripheral Modernism; 2. One Tale, Two Tellers; Conclusion; Part Two: Eyn Kemakh, Eyn Toyre; Eyn Toyre, Eyn Kemak; 3. Haskole and Negritude Compared; 4. Education and Initiation in the Narratives of Haskole and Negritude; Conclusion; Part Three: "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin); Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa"; 5. Mendele's Mare and Soyinka's Interpreters.
  • 6. Mendele's Benjamin the Third and Kourouma's Suns of IndependenceConlusion; Conclusion: At the Limits of the Periphery: The Future of the "Minor" in Minority Literatures; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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