Tato diplomová práce si klade za cíl analyzovat nejrůznější aspekty spojené s tématy imigrace a asimilace v beletrii židovsko-litevského spisovatele Abrahama Cahana. Protagonisté jeho příběhů jsou všichni židovští přistěhovalci, kteří usilují o přizpůsobení se americkému kulturnímu životu ekonomicky, ale i jazykově, společensky a také svým zevnějškem. Práce zkoumá jevy jako odcizení a potlačení mnohých kulturních prvků staré vlasti, a analyzuje jeden román (The Rise of David Levinsky), dvě novely (The Imported Bridegroom a Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) a čtyři povídky ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" a "A Ghetto Wedding").
Anotace v angličtině
This diploma thesis aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. The thesis examines struggles such as alienation from and suppression of many cultural features of the old country, and analyzes one novel (The Rise of David Levinsky), two novellas (The Imported Bridegroom and Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) and four short stories ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" and "A Ghetto Wedding").
Klíčová slova
Abraham Cahan, David Levinsky, Židé, imigrace, asimilace, Nový svět, ghetto, amerikanizace
Klíčová slova v angličtině
Abraham Cahan, David Levinsky, Jews, Americanization, immigrants, ghetto, New World, assimilation, immigration
Rozsah průvodní práce
76 s.
Jazyk
AN
Anotace
Tato diplomová práce si klade za cíl analyzovat nejrůznější aspekty spojené s tématy imigrace a asimilace v beletrii židovsko-litevského spisovatele Abrahama Cahana. Protagonisté jeho příběhů jsou všichni židovští přistěhovalci, kteří usilují o přizpůsobení se americkému kulturnímu životu ekonomicky, ale i jazykově, společensky a také svým zevnějškem. Práce zkoumá jevy jako odcizení a potlačení mnohých kulturních prvků staré vlasti, a analyzuje jeden román (The Rise of David Levinsky), dvě novely (The Imported Bridegroom a Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) a čtyři povídky ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" a "A Ghetto Wedding").
Anotace v angličtině
This diploma thesis aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. The thesis examines struggles such as alienation from and suppression of many cultural features of the old country, and analyzes one novel (The Rise of David Levinsky), two novellas (The Imported Bridegroom and Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) and four short stories ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" and "A Ghetto Wedding").
Klíčová slova
Abraham Cahan, David Levinsky, Židé, imigrace, asimilace, Nový svět, ghetto, amerikanizace
Klíčová slova v angličtině
Abraham Cahan, David Levinsky, Jews, Americanization, immigrants, ghetto, New World, assimilation, immigration
Zásady pro vypracování
This diploma work aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. In the encounter with American society, particularly the encounters with assimilated Jews and as well as Gentiles, the new immigrants are directed to fit in and suppress many cultural features of their old country. Yet, much of the cultural and religious background is not so easy to lose and not desirable to leave behind, resulting in the essence of living their hybrid lives. The student will examine these struggles and analyze one novel, two novellas and a number of short stories written in English. (Cahan also wrote some works in Yiddish which will not be a part of this undertaking, such as his autobiographical Bleter Fun Mayn Lebn as well as a novel set in Czarist Russia - and his main effort was the publication Vorverts in Yiddish or which is now called in English The Jewish Daily Forward.) His novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) focuses on a Jewish immigrant who climbed very high to great wealth but at a great cost culturally and personally, while the remaining fiction is set in the New York Jewish ghetto and centers on simple Jews living in poverty.
Zásady pro vypracování
This diploma work aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. In the encounter with American society, particularly the encounters with assimilated Jews and as well as Gentiles, the new immigrants are directed to fit in and suppress many cultural features of their old country. Yet, much of the cultural and religious background is not so easy to lose and not desirable to leave behind, resulting in the essence of living their hybrid lives. The student will examine these struggles and analyze one novel, two novellas and a number of short stories written in English. (Cahan also wrote some works in Yiddish which will not be a part of this undertaking, such as his autobiographical Bleter Fun Mayn Lebn as well as a novel set in Czarist Russia - and his main effort was the publication Vorverts in Yiddish or which is now called in English The Jewish Daily Forward.) His novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) focuses on a Jewish immigrant who climbed very high to great wealth but at a great cost culturally and personally, while the remaining fiction is set in the New York Jewish ghetto and centers on simple Jews living in poverty.
Seznam doporučené literatury
Blair, Sara. "Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity." Modern Fiction Studies; 51:2 (Summer 2005): 258-284.
Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky New York: Dover, 2002.
Cahan, Abraham. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York, New York: Dover, 1970.
Cahan, Abraham. The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories, New York, Signet, 1995.
Friedman, Natalie J. "Adultery and the Immigrant Narrative" MELUS; 34:3 (Fall 2009): 71-91.
Joseph, Philip. "Literary migration: Abraham Cahan's The Imported Bridegroom and the Alternative American Fiction." MELUS; 27:4 (Winter 2002): 3-32.
Rothenberg, Catherine. "Race and Ethnicity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the Rise of David Levinsky" MELUS 29: 3/4 (Fall 2004): 307-321.
Schreier, Benjamin. "Against the Dialectic of Nation: Abraham Cahan and Desire's Sectral Jew." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 57:2 (Summer 2011): 276-299.
Seznam doporučené literatury
Blair, Sara. "Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity." Modern Fiction Studies; 51:2 (Summer 2005): 258-284.
Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky New York: Dover, 2002.
Cahan, Abraham. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York, New York: Dover, 1970.
Cahan, Abraham. The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories, New York, Signet, 1995.
Friedman, Natalie J. "Adultery and the Immigrant Narrative" MELUS; 34:3 (Fall 2009): 71-91.
Joseph, Philip. "Literary migration: Abraham Cahan's The Imported Bridegroom and the Alternative American Fiction." MELUS; 27:4 (Winter 2002): 3-32.
Rothenberg, Catherine. "Race and Ethnicity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the Rise of David Levinsky" MELUS 29: 3/4 (Fall 2004): 307-321.
Schreier, Benjamin. "Against the Dialectic of Nation: Abraham Cahan and Desire's Sectral Jew." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 57:2 (Summer 2011): 276-299.