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

Caplan, Marc ; Caplan, Andrew Marc

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011

XIV, 342 S. ; 25 cm

Englisch

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index

1109

978-0-8047-7476-5 (cloth : alk. paper); 0-8047-7476-5 ((hbk.) £51.50)

2010050574

015899367

OCoLC: 772700238     

OCoLC: 772700238 (aus SWB)     

PJ5120

839/.109002 ; 839.109002     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 18.94 (Afrikanische Sprachen und Literaturen) ; 18.19 (Germanische Sprachen und Literaturen: Sonstiges) ; 17.96 (Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft: Sonstiges)

*Jiddisch ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft      Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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

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

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