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- Title
Pogrom and Avant-Garde: Peretz Markish's Di kupe.
- Authors
Greenwald, Roy
- Abstract
Through a close reading of Peretz Markish's Di kupe (The Mound), this article suggests that the avant-garde is less a movement directed at a determined future than one that escapes an impossible past. One of the major works of the Yiddish avant-garde poetry, Di kupe reflects a materialist vision of history, repudiating thereby an age-old Jewish tradition, its martyrology, and its concept of history. Di kupe, I argue, highlights the avant-garde as a subversive gesture that not only repudiates the past but also flouts any order as such. The article traces the ways by which the cubo-futuristic and constructivist aesthetics of the poem reflect Markish's materialist vision.
- Subjects
YIDDISH literature; MARKISH, Peretz; EXPERIMENTAL poetry; MARTYROLOGIES; PHILOSOPHY of history; JEWISH aesthetics
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 3, p65
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jewisocistud.16.3.65