... 2019 African diaspora blues aesthetic blues poetry prosody vernacular References Anderson Marian . 1941 . Heav’n Heav’n / Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child . Masterpiece 8532, 78-rpm record . Anderson T. J. 2004 . Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four...

... and fragmentary nature of much avant-garde writing as a poten- tially effective means of coming to terms with history-rupturing traumatic events. In gaining access to such traumatic histories as the African diaspora, the poetic avant-garde must...

... of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature with twentieth-cen- tury Anglophone and Francophone African literature. Caplan demonstrates how both Yiddish and African writers reacted to the liberating potential of modernity and the burdens of imperial authority by choosing similar narra- tive genres typically...

... Aviv: Machbarot Lesifrut). Yeshurun, Avot 1961 Re'em (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Dvir). Yeshurun, Avot 1964 Thirty Pages of Avot Yeshurun (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv:Shoken). Yeshurun, Avot 1974 The Syrian-African Rift (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Siman Kri'a). Yeshurun, Avot 1977...

... but nonetheless metro- politan rather than a global prestige culture. Unlike earlier generations of South Africans (in, say, the Sophiatown era of the s or even the Black Consciousness Movement era of the s), who turned to black diaspora culture (especially in the United States) for inspiration...

... (2011), Caplan compares nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literatures for the similar ways in which they were caught between imperial global languages and stigmatized native vernaculars. 7. Yiddish continues to be spoken as a vernacular...

... of study include American slavery, the Vietnam War, the Dirty War in Argentina, South African apartheid, Soviet and East European communist terror, and the Armenian and the Cambodian genocides. Hirsch • The Generation of Postmemory 105 tory of the destruction of the Jews...