New Essays on Call It Sleep

Emory Elliot

ISBN 10: 0521456568 / ISBN 13: 9780521456562

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been hailed, finally, as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America. The introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher locates the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, and the problem of representativeness. Thus, the volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status - as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Essays on Call It Sleep
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521456568
• ISBN 13: 9780521456562
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 12D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

Henry Roth's Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades, and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been finally hailed as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism and canonization. Thus the volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status--as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist.

Book Description

This volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status--as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism and canonization.