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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. This book traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, and cross-cultural translations.
240 pages, 7 halftones.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 9, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780691138442 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 234 × 157 × 18 mm · 352 g |
Language | English |
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