Call It Sleep – Context (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Publication year of Call It Sleep
Publication year of Call It Sleep
1934
Time period Call It Sleep is set in
Time period Call It Sleep is set in
1907-1913
When Call It Sleep was rediscovered
When Call It Sleep was rediscovered
1960s
Literary style of Call It Sleep
Literary style of Call It Sleep
Modernist, experimental, stream-of-consciousness
Lower East Side density (people per acre)
Lower East Side density (people per acre)
Over 1,000 people per acre
Three languages David navigates
Three languages David navigates
Yiddish (home), English (streets/school), Hebrew (cheder)
Duration of Henry Roth's writer's block
Duration of Henry Roth's writer's block
60 years
Key modernist influence on Roth's novel
Key modernist influence on Roth's novel
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
Peak year of Jewish immigration to America
Peak year of Jewish immigration to America
1907
Unemployment rate during Great Depression (1934)
Unemployment rate during Great Depression (1934)
25%