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Author Caplan, Marc.

Title How strange the change : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 between them.
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Subject Yiddish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Yiddish literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Comparative literature -- Yiddish and African.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- African and Yiddish.
Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
Literature -- Minority authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Caplan, Marc. How strange the change. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010050574
ISBN 9780804782555 (electronic book)
0804782555 (electronic book)
0804774765
9780804774765