How strange the change language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / [electronic resource] :
Marc Caplan.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- xiv, 342 p.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.