On the Margins of Modernism
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contraversions critical studies in jewish literature culture and society
david fogel
deleuze
diaspora
diversity
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guattari
hebrew culture
hebrew literary history
historical studies
hofshteyn
imagist
jews
judaism
literary criticism
literary historiography
literary trend
markish
modern jewish literature
modernism
modernist hebrew poetry
modernity
moyshe leyb halpern
poems
poetry
religion
religious literature
stylistic
yehuda amichai
yiddish literary history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520083479
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of David Fogel: The Emergence of Hebrew Modernism (1993).
