[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]: Zutra on Brenner, 'Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:17 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]: Zutra on Brenner, 'Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Naomi Brenner. Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Series. Syracuse Syracuse University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-3409-6; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-3423-2. Reviewed by Itay Zutra (University of Manitoba) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2019) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow In this fabulous and inspirational new book, literary scholar Naomi Brenner points out the obvious: Hebrew and Yiddish literati, all stemming from the Ashkenazi (European) Diaspora, not only remained bilingual long into the second half of the twentieth century (Brenner concludes her study with poems written in the 1980s by Israeli poet Avot Yeshurun) but also kept finding original and exciting new ways to explore their internal and external "translingualism" as an expression of their personal existence as modern Jewish men and women. Brenner does not accept, and rightfully so, the binary past narratives of Zionist scholarship focusing on such slogans as exile and redemption, on the shift from centers to center, and on the shift from the decaying Diaspora to the eternal "Promised Land." As an American scholar of both Hebrew and Yiddish literary history, versed in transnational theories of bilingualism and with a good command of the fluid nature of cultural production, Brenner rejects the negation of diasporic culture in the name of nationalistic ideologies. She wishes to replace the monolithic, outdated, and overly nationalistic concept of "bilingualism" with the more open, nuanced, and dynamic "translingualism." Bilingual writers, or bilingualism itself, did not disappear in the interwar period, nor did they become anachronistic and ephemeral, and hence non-modern. On the contrary, both monolingual and bilingual writers of the time overcame their bilingual anxiety and embraced, due to historical necessities and personal character, the brave new world of translingualism. Brenner begins her book with the history of modern Jewish bilingualism and the changes this concept went through in the 1920s onward when nationalistic ideas favoring monolingualismin in the formation of national identity became normative. She sets the stage for her discussion by articulating the theoretical framework of "translingualism" as follows: "In adopting the term 'translingualism,' I emphasize the movement across languages, that is to say, the movement of people, ideas, and institutions across linguistic boundaries Rather than viewing translingualism as the process of writing in a nonnative tongue, I understand literary translingualism as the cultural politics and poetics of language-crossing. A focus on translingual dynamics shifts attention away from bilingualism--as the possession of or competence in two or more languages--to the movement between two or more languages on individual, textual, institutional, and social levels. Bilingualism becomes a subset of broader translingual practices, an intense form of translingual contact but not the only way in which languages intersect" (pp. 15-16). Brenner's insistence on soft and useful keywords, such as "transition," "movement," "border crossing," and "contact," succeeds in replacing the static nature of outdated national theories of literary production culminating in the so-called organic unity of one people, one territory, and one language (p. 17). She exposes translingual dynamics not only in the writings of explicit bilingual writers, such as Zalman Shneour or Y. D. Berkovitz (in the third chapter of the book), but also in subtler and unconventional manifestations: "Literary translingualism can be manifested in a single text that incorporates more than one language; multiple texts in a given writer's oeuvre or published in a shared framework like a literary journal or anthology; and translations and other interlingual negotiations between texts. Linguistic difference has often delineated national, cultural, and hegemonic borders. Translingual contact challenges these boundaries and contends that cultural spheres are far more fluid and interconnected than has typically been acknowledged" (p. 17). The book's four insightful chapters, following its concise theoretical introduction, not only exemplify the particular cultural dynamic of translingualism but also follow a chronological historical order beginning with the
[Marxism] HDP's urgent call on Turkey's imminent incursion into N. Syria (ANF)
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[Marxism] Tens of thousands protest against Turkish invasion in NE Syria (ANF)
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[Marxism] The Domino Effect of Trump's Syria Withdrawal
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[Marxism] Was there anything “socialist” about CIO officialdom’s alliance with FDR? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On October 2nd, Jacobin published an interview with Jake Altman titled “The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America” that made an amalgam of Norman Thomas’s party and FDR. This is not the first such exercise in bad faith. On June 19th, Seth Ackerman wrote an article titled “Why Bernie Talks About the New Deal” that made identical points. It is understandable why these “democratic socialists” would try to shoehorn Norman Thomas’s SP into their neo-Kautskyist political agenda. If the DSA is a continuation of Norman Thomas’s Socialist Party as Thomas was a continuation of Eugene V. Debs, then everything is hunky-dory especially if you can convince people that Thomas “viewed Roosevelt’s program for reform of the economic system as far more reflective of the Socialist Party platform than of his own [Democratic] party’s platform”. The quote is from a Norman Thomas biography that Ackerman thought would bolster his SP/New Deal amalgam. Whatever credibility the biographer claimed, it seems unlikely that he ever thought much about the words of Norman Thomas himself who once said, “Emphatically, Mr. Roosevelt did not carry out the Socialist platform, unless he carried it out on a stretcher.” full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/10/07/was-there-anything-socialist-about-cio-officialdoms-alliance-with-fdr/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Coup at WBAI: WBAI shut down, turned into relay station
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Hi, Louis, you let me do a few guest posts a few years ago, the origins of the 1% slogan (an English vicar) & a translator of /Capital /into Urdu. You may be interested in a shadow of its former self, WBAI. (I also know you were at KPFT when it got bombed twice.) I've written quite a lot on Pacifica's financial crisis -- & the blame is not with the individual stations coz the Exec Director appoints all station managers, & is responsible for costly contracts. Anyway, here's my latest post: https://pacificaradiowatch.home.blog/2019/10/07/coup-at-wbai-ied-john-vernile-without-authorisation-closes-station-turns-it-into-relay-letter-to-all-pacifica-directors/ In solidarity, Jara Handala P.S. https://nypost.com/2019/10/07/new-york-based-wbai-radio-abruptly-shuts-down/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A dream or reality?
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[Marxism] At First, I thought I Was Fighting to Save Rubber Trees. Now I Realize I Am Fighting for Humanity
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[Marxism] WBAI Radio Station Abruptly Shuts Down | New York City, NY Patch
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[Marxism] “Intersectional before it was cool”: The women’s movement under state socialism | Interview with Kristen Ghodsee | Tony Pecinovsky | People's World
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Re: [Marxism] ‘Joker’ Continues Warner Bros. and DC Comics Attack on Left | Washington Babylon
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The site is a shit site with shit writers who don't know their shit. Enough scatology for the morning? I fucking hate superhero movies anyway... On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:00 AM DW via Marxism wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > Completely disagree with the analysis. He misses the whole point of the > film which is really about mental illness and the Reaganeske cutting public > services for the mentally ill. Is is about the decay and failure of the > capitalist system and the alienation that ensues from this. It is about an > anti-rich insurrectionary mood among the masses who *rebel* against the > treatment of working people. It is not even aimed at the "rich" since > unlike some other films of this genre, try to portray them as sympathetic > victims of mob mentality. This film is *totally sypathedic* to the mob > mentality and via the Black character Zazie Beetz who lives in the same > building as a single mom is totally with the violence against the system. > Silverstein's review is a weak and quite pathetic projection of someone on > the left who clearly didn't see the same film I did. > > David Walters > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mediacrusher%40gmail.com > -- J.A. Masko "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." Antonio Gramsci. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] ‘Joker’ Continues Warner Bros. and DC Comics Attack on Left | Washington Babylon
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Completely disagree with the analysis. He misses the whole point of the film which is really about mental illness and the Reaganeske cutting public services for the mentally ill. Is is about the decay and failure of the capitalist system and the alienation that ensues from this. It is about an anti-rich insurrectionary mood among the masses who *rebel* against the treatment of working people. It is not even aimed at the "rich" since unlike some other films of this genre, try to portray them as sympathetic victims of mob mentality. This film is *totally sypathedic* to the mob mentality and via the Black character Zazie Beetz who lives in the same building as a single mom is totally with the violence against the system. Silverstein's review is a weak and quite pathetic projection of someone on the left who clearly didn't see the same film I did. David Walters _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Trump Allies Pressed Ukraine Over Gas Firm | HuffPost
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[Marxism] ‘Joker’ Continues Warner Bros. and DC Comics Attack on Left | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Is Trump about to become the third U.S. leader to betray the Kurds? - Middle East News - Haaretz.com
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