On the Margins of Modernism On the Margins of Modernism
Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society

On the Margins of Modernism

Decentering Literary Dynamics

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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.

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 l

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2023
April 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
275
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
13.1
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