Jewish American Writing And World Literature: Maybe To Millions, Maybe To Nobody

Cover -- Jewish American Writing And World Literature: Maybe To Millions, Maybe To Nobody -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note On Transliteration And Translation -- Introduction: Jewish American World-writing -- Maybe To Millions, Maybe To Nobody -- Jewish Worlds: An Exercise In Translation -- The Institution Of World Literature -- Translation, Undecidability, And The Monolingual Paradigm -- World-writing And The Unsettling Of America -- Jewish American Worlds -- Jewish Literary Studies In Harness Chapter 1: A Monolingual World Literature: Sholem Asch And The Institutionalization Of Yiddish Literature -- The Shtetl-world Vector -- The Jewish Street And The Institutionalization Of Yiddish Literature -- Dray Shtet Between The Local And The Global -- Institutional Confusion: Between The Jewish Street And The World Stage -- The Psalms-jew: Sainthood, Celebrity, And Translation -- The Grounds Of A World System -- Chapter 2: A World Literature To-come: Jacob Glatstein's Vernacular Modernism -- World Measures -- Of Marginality, Vernacularity, And Modernism Synthetic Modernism In Yiddish And The Problem Of Taytsh -- Yiddish And A Critique Of World Literature -- Of Ghettos And Deferred Arrivals -- Homecomings At Twilight -- An Invitation To A World Literature To-come -- Chapter 3: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translation, And Ghost World Literature -- The Humble Language Of Us All -- Globus: A European Model -- Demonic Realism And The Politics Of Marginality -- Broken Rules: The Case Of The Family Moskat -- A Fool In Translation -- Alone In The World -- Becoming American In Montreal -- Ghost World Literature Chapter 4: Between Heaven And Earth: Saul Bellow And The Dialectics World Literature -- English, Translation, And Jewish Vernacularity -- On The Knees Of My Soul -- The Bellow Dialectic And The Globalization Of The Novel -- The Parochial Universal And Its New Public -- Jewish Sentimentality -- Failed Translations -- Legacies Of Disavowal -- Epilogue: Anna Margolin, Grace Paley, And The Politics Of Listening -- Endnotes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index Saul Noam Zaritt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.