Title: How strange the change
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.
Subjects: African literature, African and Yiddish, History and criticism, Literature, Yiddish literature, Comparative literature, Yiddish and African, Minority authors, Yiddish literature, history and criticism, African literature, history and criticism, Literature, history and criticism
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century