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9780815631514

Recovering "Yiddishland"

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815631514

  • ISBN10:

    0815631510

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-12-30
  • Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Merle Lyn Bachman is assistant professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she directs the undergraduate program in creative writing.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Author's Notep. xvii
Introduction: Why "Recover" Yiddishland?p. xix
On Recovering "Yiddishland": The Yiddish Student Speaksp. 1
A Real "Yankee": Yekl as a Yiddish Burlesquep. 43
Becoming Ethnic: Yezierska's Unruly Yiddishp. 80
The Strangeness of Translation: Yiddish Poets Writing Black Experiencep. 114
Modernist Visions: Mikhl Likht at the Thresholdp. 174
Translating Likht's "Procession Three"p. 223
Conclusion: The Minor; Or, My Hand in Front of the Mountainp. 277
Works Citedp. 285
Indexp. 307
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