Multilingual America - Language and the Making of American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Rosenwald is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature at Wellesley College. Klappentext Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages. Zusammenfassung Rosenwald investigates how writers of American literature! both in English and in other languages! have represented encounters in America between communities speaking different languages! in particular those between Europeans and Native Americans! those between slaveholders and African slaves! and those between immigrants and American citizens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and the languages of America; 2. Alfred Mercier, George W. Cable, and Louisiana French Creole; 3. More than an echo, or, English in Yiddish in America; 4. 'New language fun', or, on translating multilingual American texts; 5. Towards a history of multilingual American literature; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan (Wellesley College Rosenwald
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521721615
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72161-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies