How strange the change language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Caplan, Marc
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Series:	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:	Yiddish literature > 19th century > History and criticism. African literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Comparative literature > Yiddish and African. Comparative literature > African and Yiddish. Literature > Minority authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.