ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Irena Klepfisz, Max Weinreich, Class Discrimination
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When writing up interpretation, needs to be some gesture to support why. How might a reader attach klepfisz"s biography to the textual patterns: looking at cultural displacement. Klepfisz"s own exile to america: loss of family, culture, language. Reading biographically can see arc of life as bringing her back to america brings her new alliances and community. Sec 6: looking for someone to share language with. Sec 7: klepfisz voicing experience of being different even in poland, finds self without community. Sec 8: getting language back, her recovering yiddish. Sec 9: resonate of authors return to america, back over mountain, over sea, to america, its her home. Portrait or irena and her standing next to it. Author and voice who might be a representation of an author: not the same person, reasons to bring them together but two separate things. There is a jewish tradition that figures catastrophe loss of place and of collective identity as feminine (maeera t. shreiber)