How strange the change
Subtitle: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms
By: Marc Caplan
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780804774765
Subjects: African literature; African and Yiddish; History and criticism; Literature; Yiddish literature; Comparative literature; Yiddish and African; Minority authors
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures; title: Defining peripheral modernism; title: One tale, two tellers; title: Haskole and Negritude compared; title: Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude; title: Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters; title: Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence; title: Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the "minor" in minority literatures.