%0 Book %T How strange the change: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms %A Caplan, Marc %A Caplan, Andrew Marc %S Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture %D 2011 %I Stanford University Press %C Stanford, Calif. %@ 9780804774765 %G English %F 641263708 %O Marc Caplan %O Includes bibliographical references and index %X 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 %L 839/.109002 %K Yiddish literature %K History and criticism %K African literature %K Comparative literature %K Yiddish and African %K African and Yiddish %K Literature %K Minority authors %K Yiddish literature19th centuryHistory and criticism %K African literature20th centuryHistory and criticism %K Comparative literatureYiddish and African %K Comparative literatureAfrican and Yiddish %K LiteratureMinority authorsHistory and criticism %9 Text