Call it English : the languages of Jewish American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher

Publication | Library Call Number: PS153.J4 W57 2006

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Wirth-Nesher, Hana, 1948-
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents only
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Physical Description: xv, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contents: Accent marks: writing and pronouncing Jewish America. Pronouncing America, writing Jewish / Abraham Cahan, Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, Barnard Malamud
"I like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!". Speech, dialect, and realism / Abraham Cahan
"I learned at least to think in English without an accent". Linguistic passing / Mary Antin
"Christ, it'a kid!"
Chad Godya. Jewish writing and modernism / Henry Roth
"Here I am!"
Hineni. Partial and partisan translations / Saul Bellow
"Aloud she uttered it"
Hashem. Pronouncing the sacred / Cynthia Ozick
Sounding letters. "And a river went out of Eden"
Philip Roth, Aryeh, Lev Stollman. "Magnified and sanctified"
the Kaddish as first and last words.
ISBN: 0691121524
9780691121529 (acid-free paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
Subjects: American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
United States--Literatures--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.
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