Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
In Geveb; a Journal of Yiddish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 9 pp.
Keywords:
Cahan, Abraham,
;
American fiction Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Jews Migrations
;
Jews Languages
;
Jews in literature
;
Language and languages in literature
;
Yiddish language
;
English language
Abstract:
In this essay, Wirth-Nesher examines Abraham Cahan’s novella, The Imported Bridegroom, through the lens of David Roskies’ idea of “Jewspeak”: an exploration of speech poetics in modern Yiddish writing. The characters of Asriel and Flora Stroon navigate their respective linguistic landscapes of broken English and fractured Yiddish, wrestling with the ways in which language and speech reflect their status and position in American society.
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