410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
The History of Literature
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What Is American Literature?
i want to a bring forth another book that i was writing, more or less at the same time. And that is a small meditation on jewish literature. To me, jewish literature is a paradime of spacelessness and lack of linguistic concentration. Jewish literature can be written written in french, can be written in hebrew, can be write in yidrish,. Can be written in spanish, in portuguese and italian. So what are the qualities that, to you, would help make it an american literature?
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