How strange the change language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan.

Author/creator Caplan, Marc
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Yiddish literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
African literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Comparative literature--Yiddish and African.
Comparative literature--African and Yiddish.
Literature--Minority authors. --History and criticism.

SeriesStanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. ^A383414
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010050574
ISBN9780804774765 (cloth : alk. paper)

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