TY - BOOK AU - Caplan,Marc ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - How strange the change: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms T2 - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture AV - PJ5120 .C37 2011eb U1 - 839/.109002 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Yiddish literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - African literature KW - 20th century KW - Comparative literature KW - Yiddish and African KW - African and Yiddish KW - Literature KW - Minority authors KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10496736 ER -