TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wirth-Nesher,Hana
TI  - Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature 
SN  - 9780691121529
AV  - PS153.J4 W57 2009eb
U1  - 810.98924 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - Jewish authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - United States
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
KW  - Jews in literature
KW  - Jews
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Languages
KW  - Judaism and literature
KW  - Language and languages in literature
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abraham Cahan
KW  - Alfred Kazin
KW  - Allen Ginsberg
KW  - American Pastoral
KW  - Angels in America (miniseries)
KW  - Anne Frank
KW  - Anti-Zionism
KW  - Apostrophe
KW  - Bar and Bat Mitzvah
KW  - Bartleby, the Scrivener
KW  - Bernstein
KW  - Bildungsroman
KW  - Blood libel
KW  - Call It Sleep
KW  - Chaim Grade
KW  - Charles Reznikoff
KW  - Conversion to Judaism
KW  - Cynthia Ozick
KW  - Dan Miron
KW  - Delmore Schwartz
KW  - Diaspora Jew (stereotype)
KW  - Emma Lazarus
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Geoffrey Hartman
KW  - Gershom Scholem
KW  - Gilded Age
KW  - Gimpel the Fool
KW  - God Knows (novel)
KW  - Grace Paley
KW  - Haggadah
KW  - Hamlin Garland
KW  - Hebrew school
KW  - Henry Louis Gates Jr
KW  - Hineni
KW  - His Family
KW  - Holocaust victims
KW  - In Parenthesis
KW  - Isaac Bashevis Singer
KW  - James Russell Lowell
KW  - Jargon
KW  - Jeremiad
KW  - Jewish American literature
KW  - Jewish Publication Society
KW  - Jewish culture
KW  - Jewish mysticism
KW  - Jo Sinclair
KW  - Joseph Conrad
KW  - Joseph Perl
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Kabbalah
KW  - Karl Shapiro
KW  - Leslie Fiedler
KW  - Literary modernism
KW  - Lore Segal
KW  - Lycidas
KW  - Mark Twain
KW  - Mary Antin
KW  - Matzo
KW  - Maus
KW  - Meister Eckhart
KW  - Mezuzah
KW  - Mintz
KW  - Orthodox Judaism
KW  - Otto Weininger
KW  - Pale of Settlement
KW  - Parody
KW  - Paul Celan
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Portnoy's Complaint
KW  - Pun
KW  - Purim
KW  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
KW  - Rebbetzin
KW  - Religion
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Ruth Wisse
KW  - S. Ansky
KW  - Sadducees
KW  - Saul Bellow
KW  - Schnorrer
KW  - Scholem
KW  - Shekhina (book)
KW  - Shlomo
KW  - Stereotypes of Jews
KW  - Tadeusz Borowski
KW  - Tevye
KW  - The Jewbird
KW  - The Joys of Yiddish
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
KW  - The Shawl (Ozick)
KW  - Theodore Dreiser
KW  - Uncle Tom
KW  - Wai Chee Dimock
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yeshiva
KW  - Yiddish
KW  - Yinglish
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America --; Chapter 2. “I Like To Shpeak Plain, Shee? Dot’sh a kin’ a man I am!” --; Chapter 3.“I Learned at Least to Think in English without an Accent” --; Chapter 4. “Christ, It’s a Kid!”– Chad Godya --; Chapter 5. “Here I Am!” – Hineni --; Chapter 6. “Aloud She Uttered It”—השם —Hashem --; Chapter 7. Sounding Letters --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400829538
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