Multilingual America
Subtitle: language and the making of American literature
By: Lawrence Alan Rosenwald.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780521896863
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Multilingualism and literature -- United States
Description: "Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fictions to the Jewish-American writers who popularized Yiddish as a highly influential modern vernacular. While other studies have concentrated on isolated parts of this history, Lawrence Rosenwald's book is the first to consider the whole story of linguistic representation in American literature, and to consider how multilingual fictions can be translated and incorporated into a national literary history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cooper's The last of the mohicans and the languages of America; title: Alfred Mercier, George W. Cable, and Louisiana French Creole; title: More than an echo, or, English in Yiddish in America; title: "New language fun," or, On translating multilingual American texts; title: Towards a history of multilingual American literature.