@Book{641263708, author="Caplan, Marc and Caplan, Andrew Marc", title="How strange the change: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms", series="Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture", year="2011", publisher="Stanford University Press", address="Stanford, Calif.", keywords="Yiddish literature; History and criticism; African literature; Comparative literature; Yiddish and African; African and Yiddish; Literature; Minority authors; Yiddish literature19th centuryHistory and criticism; African literature20th centuryHistory and criticism; Comparative literatureYiddish and African; Comparative literatureAfrican and Yiddish; LiteratureMinority authorsHistory and criticism", contents="Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures -- Defining peripheral modernism -- One tale, two tellers -- Haskole and Negritude compared -- Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude -- Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters -- Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence -- Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the ``minor'' in minority literatures.", abstract="Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures -- Defining peripheral modernism -- One tale, two tellers -- Haskole and Negritude compared -- Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude -- Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters -- Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence -- Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the ``minor'' in minority literatures", note="Marc Caplan", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9780804774765", language="English" }