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Multilingual America, transnationalism, ethnicity, and the languages of American literature, edited by Werner Sollors

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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non fiction

Multilingual America

bibliography

edited by Werner Sollors

transnationalism, ethnicity, and the languages of American literature

Introduction: After the Culture Wars; or, From "English Only" to "English Plus" / Werner Sollors -- "The Rest of the Story"; or, Multilingual American Literature / Alide Cagidemetrio -- The New Orleans Press and French-Language literature by Creoles of Color / Michel Fabre -- From melting pot to copper kettles: assimilation and Norwegian-American literature / Orm Øverland -- The Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press in the United States, 1910-1948 / Aviva Ben-Ur -- "Los Comanches" at Alcalde: two centuries of tradition / Sandra L. Dahlberg -- Language and belonging: A Welsh-Language novel in late-Nineteenth-Century America / Melinda G. Gray -- "The quintessence of the Jew": Polemics of nationalism and peoplehood in turn-of-the-century Yiddish fiction / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- Redefining Chinese-American literature from a LOWINUS perspective: two recent examples / Te-hsing Shan -- Ethnic Fatigue: Bascillar's poetry as a metaphor for the other "Other Literature" / Gönül Pultar -- "Only an 'L'": linguistic borders and the immigrant author in Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Yankel der Yankee / Aviva Taubenfeld -- The strange case of Luigi Donato Ventura's Peppino: some speculations on the beginnings of Italian-American fiction / Mario Maffi -- Worlds of difference: Lin Yutang, Lao She, and the significance of Chinese-Language writing in America / Xiao-huang Yin -- Divine Comedy: The Jewish Orthodox sermon in America, 1881-1939 / Menahem Blondheim -- "Ersatz-drama" and ethnic (Self-) parody: Adolf Philipp and the decline of New York's German-Language stage, 1893-1918 / Peter Conolly-Smith -- The formation of an Italian-American identity through popular theater / Anna Maria Martellone -- Crossings and double-crossings: Polish-language immigrant narratives of the Great Migration / Karen Majewski -- Hyphens: between Deitsch and American / Marc Shell -- Portingles in the United States: The Luso-America of Jose Rodrigues Migueis / Michela Corradini -- Not "On the Backs of Blacks": U.S.-American (Im)migration and Jewish diaspora in the German-Language writings of Jeannette Lander / Heike Paul -- Choose and lose / Doris Sommer -- The languages of memory: Ozick's The Shawl / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- American Anglophone Literature and Multilingual America / Lawrence Rosenwald -- Reflections on multilingualism / Jules Chametzky -- Tigua Pueblo: materializing language, transmitting memory / Shelley S. Armitage -- Out of sight: the suppression of American Sign Language / Douglas C. Baynton -- ISOTYPE and the Project of Universal Graphic Language / Conevery A. Bolton -- Statement on language rights / Linguistic Society of America -- Researching Non-English literature of the United States with the Modern Language Association (MLA) database / Steve Love