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New Essays on Call It Sleep (The American Novel) - Softcover

Wirth-Nesher, Hana

 
9780521456562: New Essays on Call It Sleep (The American Novel)

Synopsis

A 1996 collection of critical essays on Henry Roth's Call It Sleep.

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Review

"...in original and exciting ways push into new territory. It is to be read carefully and treasured." Jules Chametzky, Shofar

Book Description

Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, has been finally hailed as one of the finest Jewish-American modernist novels. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism, and canonisation.

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