How Strange the Change : Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms.

How Strange the Change : Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms.

In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unex...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caplan, Marc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1800-1999
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > African and Yiddish.
Comparative literature > Yiddish and African.
Literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Yiddish literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
African literature
Literature > Minority authors
Yiddish literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Description
Summary:In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought with them processes of modernization that were already well advanced elsewhere. Yiddish and African writers reacted to the liberating potential of modernity and the burdens of imperial authority by c.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages)
ISBN:9780804782555
0804782555
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

Similar Items