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 popularised Yid...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
2008
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
156 |
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005273109708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- 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
