How strange the change : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms /
Caplan, Marc(Andrew Marc)author.
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Yiddish literature
African literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature
Literature