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On the Margins of Modernism

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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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ISBN: 9780520083479
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Author: Chana Kronfeld
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 275 pages
Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society
Genres: Literary theory
Semiotics / semiology
Literature: history and criticism

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