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On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics

On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics

Kronfeld, Chana

Paperback

Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Cultu, Book 2

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520083474
ISBN13: 9780520083479
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 22 1996
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the other--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written in two decentered languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a bold new model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically, and less in danger of universalizing the experience of minority writers.

Kronfeld examines the interpenetrations of modernist groupings through examples of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. Her discussions of Amichai, Fogel, Raab, Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutskever will be welcomed by students of modernism in general and Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in particular.

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