ISBN:
9780804774765
,
0804774765
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 342 S.
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2011
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
839/.109002
Keywords:
Yiddish literature History and criticism 19th century
;
African literature History and criticism 20th century
;
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
;
Jiddisch
;
Afrika
;
Literatur
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35155
