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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   $tFrontmatter --$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
610   $aAbraham Cahan.
610   $aAlfred Kazin.
610   $aAllen Ginsberg.
610   $aAmerican Pastoral.
610   $aAngels in America (miniseries).
610   $aAnne Frank.
610   $aAnti-Zionism.
610   $aApostrophe.
610   $aBar and Bat Mitzvah.
610   $aBartleby, the Scrivener.
610   $aBernstein.
610   $aBildungsroman.
610   $aBlood libel.
610   $aCall It Sleep.
610   $aChaim Grade.
610   $aCharles Reznikoff.
610   $aConversion to Judaism.
610   $aCynthia Ozick.
610   $aDan Miron.
610   $aDelmore Schwartz.
610   $aDiaspora Jew (stereotype).
610   $aEmma Lazarus.
610   $aEnglish poetry.
610   $aGeoffrey Hartman.
610   $aGershom Scholem.
610   $aGilded Age.
610   $aGimpel the Fool.
610   $aGod Knows (novel).
610   $aGrace Paley.
610   $aHaggadah.
610   $aHamlin Garland.
610   $aHebrew school.
610   $aHenry Louis Gates Jr.
610   $aHineni.
610   $aHis Family.
610   $aHolocaust victims.
610   $aIn Parenthesis.
610   $aIsaac Bashevis Singer.
610   $aJames Russell Lowell.
610   $aJargon.
610   $aJeremiad.
610   $aJewish American literature.
610   $aJewish Publication Society.
610   $aJewish culture.
610   $aJewish mysticism.
610   $aJews.
610   $aJo Sinclair.
610   $aJoseph Conrad.
610   $aJoseph Perl.
610   $aJudaism.
610   $aKabbalah.
610   $aKarl Shapiro.
610   $aLeslie Fiedler.
610   $aLiterary modernism.
610   $aLore Segal.
610   $aLycidas.
610   $aMark Twain.
610   $aMary Antin.
610   $aMatzo.
610   $aMaus.
610   $aMeister Eckhart.
610   $aMezuzah.
610   $aMintz.
610   $aOrthodox Judaism.
610   $aOtto Weininger.
610   $aPale of Settlement.
610   $aParody.
610   $aPaul Celan.
610   $aPoetry.
610   $aPortnoy's Complaint.
610   $aPun.
610   $aPurim.
610   $aRalph Waldo Emerson.
610   $aRebbetzin.
610   $aReligion.
610   $aRomanticism.
610   $aRuth Wisse.
610   $aS. Ansky.
610   $aSadducees.
610   $aSaul Bellow.
610   $aSchnorrer.
610   $aScholem.
610   $aShekhina (book).
610   $aShlomo.
610   $aStereotypes of Jews.
610   $aTadeusz Borowski.
610   $aTevye.
610   $aThe Jewbird.
610   $aThe Joys of Yiddish.
610   $aThe Other Hand.
610   $aThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
610   $aThe Shawl (Ozick).
610   $aTheodore Dreiser.
610   $aUncle Tom.
610   $aWai Chee Dimock.
610   $aWriting.
610   $aYeshiva.
610   $aYiddish.
610   $aYinglish.
610   $aZionism.
615  0$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.
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