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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser |
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser
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Intro -- Contents -- 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 Independence -- Conlusion -- Conclusion: At the Limits of the Periphery: The Future of the "Minor" in Minority Literatures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Caplan, Marc How Strange the Change : Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms
Redwood City : Stanford University Press,c2011 9780804774765
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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
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