New Essays on Call It SleepHana Wirth-Nesher Cambridge University Press, 13 de juny 1996 - 192 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Many Myths of Henry Roth | 17 |
Roths Private New York | 29 |
The Classic of Disinheritance | 61 |
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