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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400829538
035 _a(DE-B1597)446371
035 _a(OCoLC)979578890
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aLIT004210
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082 0 4 _a810.98924
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWirth-Nesher, Hana
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCall It English :
_bThe Languages of Jewish American Literature /
_cHana Wirth-Nesher.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2005
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b7 halftones.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface --
_tChapter 1. Accent Marks: Writing and Pronouncing Jewish America --
_tChapter 2. “I Like To Shpeak Plain, Shee? Dot’sh a kin’ a man I am!” --
_tChapter 3.“I Learned at Least to Think in English without an Accent” --
_tChapter 4. “Christ, It’s a Kid!”– Chad Godya --
_tChapter 5. “Here I Am!” – Hineni --
_tChapter 6. “Aloud She Uttered It”—השם —Hashem --
_tChapter 7. Sounding Letters --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aCall 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xJewish authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aBilingualism
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aBilingualism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
650 0 _aJews in literature.
650 0 _aJews
_xIntellectual life
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aJews
_xLanguages
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aJews
_zUnited States
_xIntellectual life.
650 0 _aJews
_zUnited States
_xLanguages.
650 0 _aJudaism and literature
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aJudaism and literature
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages in literature.
650 0 _aMultilingualism
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aMultilingualism
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAbraham Cahan.
653 _aAlfred Kazin.
653 _aAllen Ginsberg.
653 _aAmerican Pastoral.
653 _aAngels in America (miniseries).
653 _aAnne Frank.
653 _aAnti-Zionism.
653 _aApostrophe.
653 _aBar and Bat Mitzvah.
653 _aBartleby, the Scrivener.
653 _aBernstein.
653 _aBildungsroman.
653 _aBlood libel.
653 _aCall It Sleep.
653 _aChaim Grade.
653 _aCharles Reznikoff.
653 _aConversion to Judaism.
653 _aCynthia Ozick.
653 _aDan Miron.
653 _aDelmore Schwartz.
653 _aDiaspora Jew (stereotype).
653 _aEmma Lazarus.
653 _aEnglish poetry.
653 _aGeoffrey Hartman.
653 _aGershom Scholem.
653 _aGilded Age.
653 _aGimpel the Fool.
653 _aGod Knows (novel).
653 _aGrace Paley.
653 _aHaggadah.
653 _aHamlin Garland.
653 _aHebrew school.
653 _aHenry Louis Gates Jr.
653 _aHineni.
653 _aHis Family.
653 _aHolocaust victims.
653 _aIn Parenthesis.
653 _aIsaac Bashevis Singer.
653 _aJames Russell Lowell.
653 _aJargon.
653 _aJeremiad.
653 _aJewish American literature.
653 _aJewish Publication Society.
653 _aJewish culture.
653 _aJewish mysticism.
653 _aJews.
653 _aJo Sinclair.
653 _aJoseph Conrad.
653 _aJoseph Perl.
653 _aJudaism.
653 _aKabbalah.
653 _aKarl Shapiro.
653 _aLeslie Fiedler.
653 _aLiterary modernism.
653 _aLore Segal.
653 _aLycidas.
653 _aMark Twain.
653 _aMary Antin.
653 _aMatzo.
653 _aMaus.
653 _aMeister Eckhart.
653 _aMezuzah.
653 _aMintz.
653 _aOrthodox Judaism.
653 _aOtto Weininger.
653 _aPale of Settlement.
653 _aParody.
653 _aPaul Celan.
653 _aPoetry.
653 _aPortnoy's Complaint.
653 _aPun.
653 _aPurim.
653 _aRalph Waldo Emerson.
653 _aRebbetzin.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aRomanticism.
653 _aRuth Wisse.
653 _aS. Ansky.
653 _aSadducees.
653 _aSaul Bellow.
653 _aSchnorrer.
653 _aScholem.
653 _aShekhina (book).
653 _aShlomo.
653 _aStereotypes of Jews.
653 _aTadeusz Borowski.
653 _aTevye.
653 _aThe Jewbird.
653 _aThe Joys of Yiddish.
653 _aThe Other Hand.
653 _aThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
653 _aThe Shawl (Ozick).
653 _aTheodore Dreiser.
653 _aUncle Tom.
653 _aWai Chee Dimock.
653 _aWriting.
653 _aYeshiva.
653 _aYiddish.
653 _aYinglish.
653 _aZionism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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