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Multilingual America : language and the making of American literature /

"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 populariz...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan, 1948-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Collection:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 156.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and the languages of America
  • Alfred Mercier, George W. Cable, and Louisiana French Creole
  • More than an echo, or, English in Yiddish in America
  • "New language fun," or, on translating multilingual American texts
  • Towards a history of multilingual American literature.