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On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics (Volume 2) (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society) by Chana Kronfeld is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Chana Kronfeld

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520083462

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction