Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1998-08
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780814780930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aside from the occasional controversy over "Official English" campaigns, language remains the blind spot in the debate over multiculturalism. Considering its status as a nation of non-English speaking aborigines and of immigrants with many languages, America exhibits a curious tunnel vision about cultural and literary forms that are not in English. How then have non-English speaking Americans written about their experiences in this country? And what can we learn-about America, immigration and ethnicity-from them? Arguing that multilingualism is perhaps the most important form of diversity, Multilingual America calls attention to-and seeks to correct-the linguistic parochialism that has defined American literary study. By bringing together essays on important works by, among others, Yiddish, Chinese American, German American, Italian American, Norwegian American, and Spanish American writers, Werner Sollors here presents a fuller view of multilingualism as a historical phenomenon and as an ongoing way of life. At a time when we are just beginning to understand the profound effects of language acquisition on the development of the brain, Multilingual America forces us to broaden what in fact constitutes American literature.
Author: Mônica Rector
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 488
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Author: American Portuguese Society
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 108
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Publisher: Gavea-Brown Publications
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 238
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 294
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Author: José Rodrigues Miguéis
Publisher: Brown Publishing Company
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 122
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 500
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