American Babel : literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni /
| Други автори: | Shell, Marc. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Серия: |
Harvard English studies ;
20 |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Table of contents |
Съдържание:
- Babel in America
- The name of America
- "And in a Christian language they sold me": messages concealed in a slave's Arabic-language autobiographical narrative
- Unfaithful translation: bilingual versions as Greek-American strategies of concealment
- Disturbing the language peace: German-Jewish women poets in Aufbau, 1933-1993
- Mordecai and Haman: the drama of Welsh America
- Ferdinand Kürnberger's Der Amerika-müde (1855): German-language literature about the United States, and German-American writing
- "Neither the King's English nor the Rebbetzin's Yiddish": Yinglish literature in the United States
- Homing pidgins: another version of pastoral in Hawai'i
- Irish Gaelic literature in the United States
- Alfred Mercier's polyglot plantation novel of Louisiana
- Written in sound: translating the multiple voices of the Zuni storyteller
- Contrapuntal languages: the games they play in Spanish
- America, everybody's other world
- The Gothic and the American-exotic: Baron Ludig von Reizenstein's Die geheimnisse von New-Orleans
- Grave matters: poetry and the preservation of the Welsh language in the United States
- Beyond the national tradition: Thuong Vuong-Riddick's Two shores/deux rives
- The Welsh Atlantic: mapping the contexts of Welsh-American literature
- Carved on the walls: the archaeology and canonization of the Angel Island Chinese poems
- Immigration blues: the portrayal of Chinatown life in Chinese-language literature in America
- "China" in the American diaspora
- Haitian literature in the United States, 1948-1986
- Translingualism and the American literary imagination
- What is Aufklärung (in Pennsylvania)?
- "Prized his mouth open": Mark Twain's The jumping frog of Calaveras county: in English, then in French, then clawed back into civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil.