04896nam 2200865Ia 450 991045330730332120200520144314.01-282-93558-51-4008-2953-4978661293558910.1515/9781400829538(CKB)2550000001140459(EBL)537720(OCoLC)689995655(SSID)ssj0000457091(PQKBManifestationID)11298333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457091(PQKBWorkID)10409720(PQKB)11487631(MiAaPQ)EBC537720(OCoLC)870409155(MdBmJHUP)muse36483(DE-B1597)446371(OCoLC)979578890(DE-B1597)9781400829538(Au-PeEL)EBL537720(CaPaEBR)ebr10448513(CaONFJC)MIL293558(EXLCZ)99255000000114045920090217d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCall it English[electronic resource] the languages of Jewish American literature /Hana Wirth-NesherCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. ;Woodstock Princeton University Press20091 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13844-3 0-691-12152-4 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 -- IndexCall 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.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureJewsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeJudaism and literatureUnited StatesLanguage and languages in literatureJewsUnited StatesLanguagesMultilingualismUnited StatesBilingualismUnited StatesJews in literatureUnited StatesLiteraturesHistory and criticismElectronic books.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.JewsIntellectual life.Judaism and literatureLanguage and languages in literature.JewsLanguages.MultilingualismBilingualismJews in literature.810.98924HU 1729rvkWirth-Nesher Hana1948-573703MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453307303321Call it English2457618UNINA