Call it English: The Languages of Jewish American LiteraturePrinceton University Press, 2006 - 224 من الصفحات 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.
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. |
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I like to shpeak plain shee? Dotsh a kin a man I am 32 | 32 |
CHAPTER 3 | 52 |
CHAPTER 4 | 76 |
CHAPTER 5 | 100 |
CHAPTER 6 | 127 |
CHAPTER 7 | 149 |
Notes | 177 |
Works Cited | 203 |