Meditations on a Monkey-Face: Monsters, Transgressed Boundaries, and Contested Hierarchies in a Yiddish Eulenspiegel.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Idelson-Shein, Iris
- Source
- Jewish Quarterly Review. Winter2018, Vol. 108 Issue 1, p28-59. 32p.
- Subject
- *HIERARCHIES
*YIDDISH literature
*MONSTERS
*THEORY of knowledge
*RADICALISM
- Language
- ISSN
- 0021-6682
The article focuses on concerns surrounding problems of transgressed borders and confused hierarchies with unnamed translator's Jewish and non-Jewish contemporaries took on a unique significance in the context of Yiddish literature. It mentions monsters enjoyed a particular appeal that transgressed language, space, period, and genre and destabilizes epistemological boundaries and challenges the possibility of identity. It also mentions maintaining order in the face of radical transformation.