Wirth-Nesher Call It English

The Languages of Jewish American Literature
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2953-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wirth-Nesher, Hana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1: Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America 1

Pronouncing America, Writing Jewish: Abraham Cahan, Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud

Chapter 2: "I like to shpeak plain, shee? Dot'sh a kin' a man I am!" 32

Speech, Dialect, and Realism: Abraham Cahan

Chapter 3: "I learned at least to think in English without an accent" 52

Linguistic Passing: Mary Antin

Chapter 4: "Christ it's a Kid!"--Chad Godya. 76

Jewish Writing and Modernism: Henry Roth

Chapter 5: "Here I am!"--Hineni 100

Partial and Partisan Translations: Saul Bellow

Chapter 6: "Aloud she uttered it."-- --Hashem 127

Pronouncing the Sacred: Cynthia Ozick

Chapter 7: Sounding Letters 149

"And a river went out of Eden"--Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman

"Magnified and Sanctified"--The Kaddish as First and Last Words

Notes 177

Works Cited 203

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States, Professor of English, and head of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel and the editor of What is Jewish Literature?, and coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature.