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1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, trans. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Jewish authors. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Judaism and literature -- United States.
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Judaism and literature. |
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Language and languages in literature.
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Language and languages in literature. |
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Jews -- United States -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Multilingualism -- United States.
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Multilingualism. |
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Bilingualism -- United States.
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Bilingualism. |
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
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United States -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
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Literatures.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Wirth-Nesher, Hana. Call It English : The Languages of Jewish American Literature. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691138442 |
| ISBN |
9781400829538 (electronic book) |
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1400829534 (electronic book) |
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9780691138442 (paperback) |
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0691138443 (paperback) |
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