On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics: 2 (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society)

by Chana Kronfeld (Author), Chana Kronfeld (Author)

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  1996

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  This text counters dominant models of marginality by looking at modernist poetry written in two decentred languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically and less likely to universalize minority experiences.