How Strange the Change

Name: How Strange the Change
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804774765
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Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

Autor: Marc Caplan

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Stanford University Press

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In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key...

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Autor

Marc Caplan

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2011

Stránek

360

EAN

9780804774765

ISBN

0804774765

Enbook ID

04719071

Vydavatel

Stanford University Press

Hmotnost

626

Rozměry

237 x 172 x 24

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In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought with them processes of modernization that were already well advanced elsewhere. Yiddish and African writers reacted to the liberating potential of modernity and the burdens of imperial authority by choosing similar narrative genres, typically reminiscent of early-modern European literatures: the picaresque, the pseudo-autobiography, satire, and the "Bildungsroman." Both display analogous anxieties toward language, caught as they were between imperial, "global" languages and stigmatized native vernaculars, and between traditions of writing and orality. Through comparative readings of narratives by Reb Nakhman of Breslov, Amos Tutuola, Yisroel Aksenfeld, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Isaac Meyer Dik, Camara Laye, Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Wole Soyinka, Y. Y. Linetski, and Ahmadou Karouma, Caplan demonstrates that these literatures' "belated" relationship to modernization suggests their potential to anticipate subsequent crises in the modernity and post-modernity of metropolitan cultures. This, in turn, leads him to propose a new theoretical model, peripheral modernism, which incorporates both a new understanding of "periphery" and "center" in modernity and a new methodology for comparative literary criticism and theory.

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