Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: A New Perspective on "Said It Was Sleeping"

Author: Hannah Vaserstein (ed.)
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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, published in the 1930s and praised upon release, was largely overlooked in the following decades but gained widespread acclaim after its reissue in the 1960s. The book is hailed as one of the greatest American Jewish novels of the first half of the 20th century and one of the most important modernist novels in America. Hannah Vaserstein's introduction places the work within a specific cultural context, reflecting the debates in contemporary novels of racism and ethnic minority studies, particularly the representative issues within. Leslie Fiedler, who played a key role in the book's reissue, provides a new interpretive reading. Mario Martaressi traces the of the book after its publication, while Ruth Weiss connects the theme of immigration to existentialist masters. The following three essays mention modernism from different perspectives: Brian McHale focuses on Roth's modernist achievements rather than his postmodernist poetic achievements, Karen Lawrence emphasizes the patriarchal and matriarchal forces crucial to the intrinsic life of modernist novels, and Vera Soloway discusses "racial modernism" in second-generation immigrant literature. Thus, the book defines Roth's identity from multiple aspects—American writer, Jewish writer, and European modernist.