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



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Autore: Wirth-Nesher Hana <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Call it English [[electronic resource] ] : the languages of Jewish American literature / / Hana Wirth-Nesher Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2009
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 810.98924
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Literatures History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: Abraham Cahan
Alfred Kazin
Allen Ginsberg
American Pastoral
Angels in America (miniseries)
Anne Frank
Anti-Zionism
Apostrophe
Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bernstein
Bildungsroman
Blood libel
Call It Sleep
Chaim Grade
Charles Reznikoff
Conversion to Judaism
Cynthia Ozick
Dan Miron
Delmore Schwartz
Diaspora Jew (stereotype)
Emma Lazarus
English poetry
Geoffrey Hartman
Gershom Scholem
Gilded Age
Gimpel the Fool
God Knows (novel)
Grace Paley
Haggadah
Hamlin Garland
Hebrew school
Henry Louis Gates Jr
Hineni
His Family
Holocaust victims
In Parenthesis
Isaac Bashevis Singer
James Russell Lowell
Jargon
Jeremiad
Jewish American literature
Jewish Publication Society
Jewish culture
Jewish mysticism
Jews
Jo Sinclair
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Perl
Judaism
Kabbalah
Karl Shapiro
Leslie Fiedler
Literary modernism
Lore Segal
Lycidas
Mark Twain
Mary Antin
Matzo
Maus
Meister Eckhart
Mezuzah
Mintz
Orthodox Judaism
Otto Weininger
Pale of Settlement
Parody
Paul Celan
Poetry
Portnoy's Complaint
Pun
Purim
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebbetzin
Religion
Romanticism
Ruth Wisse
S. Ansky
Sadducees
Saul Bellow
Schnorrer
Scholem
Shekhina (book)
Shlomo
Stereotypes of Jews
Tadeusz Borowski
Tevye
The Jewbird
The Joys of Yiddish
The Other Hand
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Shawl (Ozick)
Theodore Dreiser
Uncle Tom
Wai Chee Dimock
Writing
Yeshiva
Yiddish
Yinglish
Zionism
Classificazione: HU 1729
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Call it English  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-93558-5
1-4008-2953-4
9786612935589
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790605903321
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