Recovering "Yiddishland" : threshold moments in American literature / Merle L. Bachman.

Publication | Library Call Number: PJ5151 .B33 2008

Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Bachman, Merle.
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008
Locale: United States
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: xxviii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : why "recover" Yiddishland?
On recovering "Yiddishland" : the Yiddish student speaks
A real "Yankee" : Yekl as a Yiddish burlesque
Becoming ethnic : Yezierska's unruly Yiddish
The strangeness of translation : Yiddish poets writing Black experience
Modernist visions : Mikhl Likht at the threshold
Translating Likht's "Procession three"
Conclusion : the minor, or, my hand in front of the mountain.
ISBN: 9780815631514
0815631510 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-305) and index.

Introduction : why "recover" Yiddishland? -- On recovering "Yiddishland" : the Yiddish student speaks -- A real "Yankee" : Yekl as a Yiddish burlesque -- Becoming ethnic : Yezierska's unruly Yiddish -- The strangeness of translation : Yiddish poets writing Black experience -- Modernist visions : Mikhl Likht at the threshold -- Translating Likht's "Procession three" -- Conclusion : the minor, or, my hand in front of the mountain.
Subjects: Yiddish literature--United States--History and criticism.
Jews--United States--Identity.
Licht, Michel,--1893-1953--Criticism and interpretation.
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