Author

Publication

2011 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, California

Language

English

Word Count

85,500 words, Guess

Page Count

342 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC839/.109002
  • LCCPJ5120 .C37 2011

Description

Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of 19th-century Yiddish literature and 20th-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Other Editions

  • How strange the change: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernismsStanford University Press2011-01-01

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