LEADER 04896nam 2200865Ia 450 001 9910453307303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93558-5 010 $a1-4008-2953-4 010 $a9786612935589 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400829538 035 $a(CKB)2550000001140459 035 $a(EBL)537720 035 $a(OCoLC)689995655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000457091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11298333 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409720 035 $a(PQKB)11487631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537720 035 $a(OCoLC)870409155 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36483 035 $a(DE-B1597)446371 035 $a(OCoLC)979578890 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400829538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537720 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448513 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293558 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001140459 100 $a20090217d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCall it English$b[electronic resource] $ethe languages of Jewish American literature /$fHana Wirth-Nesher 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13844-3 311 $a0-691-12152-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tChapter 1. Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America -- $tChapter 2. "I Like To Shpeak Plain, Shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!" -- $tChapter 3."I Learned at Least to Think in English without an Accent" -- $tChapter 4. "Christ, It's a Kid!"- Chad Godya -- $tChapter 5. "Here I Am!" - Hineni -- $tChapter 6. "Aloud She Uttered It"-??? -Hashem -- $tChapter 7. Sounding Letters -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aCall 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aJudaism and literature$zUnited States 606 $aLanguage and languages in literature 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xLanguages 606 $aMultilingualism$zUnited States 606 $aBilingualism$zUnited States 606 $aJews in literature 607 $aUnited States$vLiteratures$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aJudaism and literature 615 0$aLanguage and languages in literature. 615 0$aJews$xLanguages. 615 0$aMultilingualism 615 0$aBilingualism 615 0$aJews in literature. 676 $a810.98924 686 $aHU 1729$2rvk 700 $aWirth-Nesher$b Hana$f1948-$0573703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453307303321 996 $aCall it English$92457618 997 $aUNINA