Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature

by Lawrence Alan Rosenwald and Lawrence Rosenwald

Book Overview

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 Yiddish as a highly influential modern vernacular. While other studies have concentrated on isolated parts of this history, Lawrence Rosenwald's book is the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052172161X
• ISBN13: 9780521721615
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"