The Multilingual anthology of American literature
Subtitle: a reader of original texts with English translations
By: edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors.
Contributors: Shell, Marc.; Sollors, Werner.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: United States -- Literatures; United States -- Literatures -- Translations into English
Genres: Literatures.; Literatures; Translations into English.
Description: "The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is.".

"American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.".

"Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 711-744) and index.
"A Longfellow Institute book."