Recovering "Yiddishland"
Subtitle: threshold moments in American literature
By: Merle L. Bachman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780815631514
Subjects: Licht, Michel, -- 1893-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation; Yiddish literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Jews -- United States -- Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why "recover" Yiddishland?; title: On recovering "Yiddishland": the Yiddish student speaks; title: A real "Yankee": Yekl as a Yiddish burlesque; title: Becoming ethnic: Yezierska's unruly Yiddish; title: The strangeness of translation: Yiddish poets writing Black experience; title: Modernist visions: Mikhl Likht at the threshold; title: Translating Likht's "Procession three"; title: Conclusion: the minor; or, my hand in front of the mountain.