Livro - New Essays On Call It Sleep

This book is a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels. With several helpful guides to further reading, this volume is specially designed for undergraduate students.

The novel Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth, was initially praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, followed by decades of omission and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been hailed, finally, as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America.

The introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher locates the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, and the problem of representativeness. Thus, the volume sets out to consider Roth¿s hybrid status - as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist.