Format:
XIV, 342 S.
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9780804774765
,
0804774765
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Content:
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
,
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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jiddisch
;
Afrika
;
Literatur
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35155
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