Multilingual America

Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Lawrence Rosenwald is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature at Wellesley College.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan Rosenwald
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies