{"product_id":"jewish-american-writing-and-world-literature-maybe-to-millions-maybe-to-nobody-hardcover","title":"Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSaul Noam Zaritt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley all responded to a demand to write beyond local Jewish and American audiences and toward the world, as a global market and as a transnational ideal. Beyond fame and global circulation, world literature holds up the promise of legibility, in which a threatened origin becomes the site for redemptive literary creativity. But this promise inevitably remains unfulfilled, as writers struggle to balance potential universal achievements with untranslatable realities, rendering impossible any complete arrival in the US and in the world. The work examined in this study was deeply informed by an intimate connection to Yiddish, a Jewish vernacular with its own global network and institutional ambitions. \u003cem\u003eJewish American\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting and World Literature\u003c\/em\u003e tracks the attempts and failures, through translation, to find a home for Jewish vernacularity in the institution of world literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe exploration of the translational uncertainty of Jewish American writing joins postcolonial critiques of US and world literature and challenges Eurocentric and Anglo-American paradigms of literary study. In bringing into conversation the fields of Yiddish studies, American Studies, and world literature theory, \u003cem\u003eJewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a new approach to the study of modern Jewish literatures and their implication within global empires of culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaul Noam Zaritt, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaul 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 \u003cem\u003eProoftexts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStudies in American Jewish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eIn geveb\u003c\/em\u003e, an open-access digital journal of Yiddish studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42163219759239,"sku":"9780198863717","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/11ae0e5210dfeed4b1ca0bbb585d3ece.webp?v=1733295680","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/jewish-american-writing-and-world-literature-maybe-to-millions-maybe-to-nobody-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}