Call it English [[electronic resource] ] : the languages of Jewish American literature / / Hana Wirth-Nesher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453307303321
• Autore: Wirth-Nesher Hana <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J. ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-93558-5; 1-4008-2953-4; 9786612935589
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Classificazione: HU 1729
• Disciplina: 810.98924
• Soggetti: American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Jews - United States - Intellectual life; Judaism and literature - United States; Language and languages in literature; Jews - United States - Languages; Multilingualism - United States; Bilingualism - United States; Jews in literature; Electronic books.; United States Literatures History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America -- Chapter 2. "I Like To Shpeak Plain, Shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!" -- Chapter 3."I Learned at Least to Think in English without an Accent" -- Chapter 4. "Christ, It's a Kid!"- Chad Godya -- Chapter 5. "Here I Am!" - Hineni -- Chapter 6. "Aloud She Uttered It"-השם -Hashem -- Chapter 7. Sounding Letters -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In ; transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. The first part of the book examines immigrant writing that enacts the drama of acquiring and relinquishing language in an America marked by language debates, local color writing, and nativism. The second part addresses multilingual writing by native-born authors in response to Jewish America's postwar social transformation and to the Holocaust. A profound and eloquently written exploration of bilingual aesthetics and cross-cultural translation, Call It English resounds also with pertinence to other minority and ethnic literatures in the United States.

Persecution in 1 Peter [[electronic resource] ] : differentiating and contextualizing early Christian suffering / / by Travis B. Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462659703321
• Autore: Williams Travis B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-85450-3; 90-04-24201-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (511 pages)
• Collana: Supplements to Novum Testamentum, , 0167-9732 ; ; v. 145
• Disciplina: 227.9206
• Soggetti: Suffering - Biblical teaching; Conflict management - Biblical teaching; Social conflict in the Bible; Persecution - History - Early church, ca. 30-600; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-466) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1. Introductory Matters -- 2. Social Conflict in Social-Psychological Perspective -- 3. The Geographical Setting of 1 Peter -- 4. The Addressees of 1 Peter -- 5. Conflict Management in Roman Anatolia -- 6. The Legal Status of Christians in the Roman World -- 7. The Cause(s) of Conflict in 1 Peter -- 8. The Form(s) of Conflict in 1 Peter -- Conclusion -- 1. Suffering and the Unity of 1 Peter -- 2. Roman Annexation of Asia Minor -- 3. Cities of First-Century CE Anatolia -- 4. Ancient Economics in Recent Discussion -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Persecution in 1 Peter , Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of suffering in 1 Peter. While interpreters commonly portray the conflict situation addressed by the epistle as \'unofficial\' persecution consisting of discrimination and verbal abuse, Williams demonstrates the inadequacy of this modern consensus by situating the letter against the backdrop of conflict management in first-century CE Asia Minor. Drawing on a wide range of historical evidence and on modern social-psychological ; perspectives, this work reconstructs the conflict situation of the Anatolian audience and offers important insights regarding the legal culpability of Christians following the Neronian persecution, the roles of local and provincial authorities in the judicial process, and the variegated conflict experiences of different socio-economic groups within the Christian communities.