TY - BOOK AU - Caplan, Marc AU - Caplan, Andrew Marc PY - 2011 DA - 2011// TI - How strange the change: language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms T3 - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture PB - Stanford University Press CY - Stanford, Calif. KW - Yiddish literature KW - History and criticism KW - African literature KW - Comparative literature KW - Yiddish and African KW - African and Yiddish KW - Literature KW - Minority authors KW - Yiddish literature19th centuryHistory and criticism KW - African literature20th centuryHistory and criticism KW - Comparative literatureYiddish and African KW - Comparative literatureAfrican and Yiddish KW - LiteratureMinority authorsHistory and criticism AB - 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 SN - 9780804774765 LA - English N1 - Marc Caplan ID - 641263708 ER -