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Recovering "Yiddishland - Threshold Moments in American Literature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R818
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Recovering "Yiddishland - Threshold Moments in American Literature (Hardcover): Merle L. Bachman

Recovering "Yiddishland - Threshold Moments in American Literature (Hardcover)

Merle L. Bachman

Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. In ""Recovering ""Yiddishland"""", Bachman offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. She reconstructs ""Yiddishland"" as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York City. The book spotlights significant works by Yiddish immigrant writers that reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization. The author takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Anzia Yezierska's Hungry Hearts. Bachman discusses the modernist poet Mikhl Likht, whose simultaneous embrace of American literature and resistance to English assimilation marked him as the supreme ""threshold"" poet. Combining sophisticated academic analysis of literary works with her own personal encounters with Yiddish writing, Bachman offers a provocative and highly readable contribution to Jewish literary history.

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Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Release date: February 2008
First published: February 2008
Authors: Merle L. Bachman
Dimensions: 236 x 162 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3151-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN: 0-8156-3151-0
Barcode: 9780815631514

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