This book explores how Jewish American writers like Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley think of themselves as world writers, and the successes and failures that come with this role.
This book explores how Jewish American writers like Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley think of themselves as world writers, and the successes and failures that come with this role.
Saul Noam Zaritt is an Associate Professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He studies modern Jewish writing and the politics of translation, examining how writers move between cultures and across boundaries to reimagine the languages of Jewish experience. He has held fellowships at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Washington University in St. Louis. His scholarly work has appeared in the journals Prooftexts, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and American Literary History. He is a founding editor of In geveb, an open-access digital journal of Yiddish studies.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Jewish American World Writing * 1: A Monolingual World Literature: Sholem Asch and the Institutionalization of Yiddish Literature * 2: A World Literature To-Come: Jacob Glatstein's Vernacular Modernism * 3: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translation, and Ghost World Literature * 4: Between Heaven and Earth: Saul Bellow and the Dialectics of World Literature * Epilogue: Anna Margolin, Grace Paley, and the Politics of Listening
* Introduction: Jewish American World Writing * 1: A Monolingual World Literature: Sholem Asch and the Institutionalization of Yiddish Literature * 2: A World Literature To-Come: Jacob Glatstein's Vernacular Modernism * 3: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translation, and Ghost World Literature * 4: Between Heaven and Earth: Saul Bellow and the Dialectics of World Literature * Epilogue: Anna Margolin, Grace Paley, and the Politics of Listening
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