Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Caplan, Marc.

Title How strange the change [electronic resource] : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 342 p.
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0804774765
9780804774765
9780804782555 (electronic bk.)

 
    
Available items only