American Babel
Subtitle: literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni
By: edited by Marc Shell.
Contributors: Shell, Marc.
Series: Harvard English studies ;; 20
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Minorities in literature; United States -- Literatures -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Babel in America; title: The name of America; title: "And in a Christian language they sold me": messages concealed in a slave's Arabic-language autobiographical narrative; title: Unfaithful translation: bilingual versions as Greek-American strategies of concealment; title: Disturbing the language peace: German-Jewish women poets in Aufbau, 1933-1993; title: Mordecai and Haman: the drama of Welsh America; title: Ferdinand Kürnberger's Der Amerika-müde (1855): German-language literature about the United States, and German-American writing; title: "Neither the King's English nor the Rebbetzin's Yiddish": Yinglish literature in the United States; title: Homing pidgins: another version of pastoral in Hawai'i; title: Irish Gaelic literature in the United States; title: Alfred Mercier's polyglot plantation novel of Louisiana; title: Written in sound: translating the multiple voices of the Zuni storyteller; title: Contrapuntal languages: the games they play in Spanish; title: America, everybody's other world; title: The Gothic and the American-exotic: Baron Ludig von Reizenstein's Die geheimnisse von New-Orleans; title: Grave matters: poetry and the preservation of the Welsh language in the United States; title: Beyond the national tradition: Thuong Vuong-Riddick's Two shores/deux rives; title: The Welsh Atlantic: mapping the contexts of Welsh-American literature; title: Carved on the walls: the archaeology and canonization of the Angel Island Chinese poems; title: Immigration blues: the portrayal of Chinatown life in Chinese-language literature in America; title: "China" in the American diaspora; title: Haitian literature in the United States, 1948-1986; title: Translingualism and the American literary imagination; title: What is Aufklärung (in Pennsylvania)?; title: "Prized his mouth open": Mark Twain's The jumping frog of Calaveras county: in English, then in French, then clawed back into civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil.