New Essays on "Call It Sleep"
Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades, and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been finally hailed 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....
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A collection of critical essays on Henry Roth's Call it Sleep.
Series Editor's Preface1Introduction12The Many Myths of Henry Roth173Shifting Urbanscape: Roth's "Private" New York294The Classic of Disinheritance615Henry Roth in Nighttown, or, Containing Ulysses756Roth's Call It Sleep: Modernism on the Lower East Side1077"A world somewhere, somewhere else," Language, Nostalgic Mournfulness, and Urban Immigrant Family Romance in Call It Sleep127Notes on Contributors189Selected Bibliography191
