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American Babel
literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni
By Shell, Marc
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-661-4
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2002
This loosely knit collection of 25 essays demonstrates how literature can be American regardless of the language in which ideas are expressed. In the introductory essay, editor Shell (comparative literature and English, Harvard) explains how multilingualism lost its voice and the English language won supremacy in the United States in contrast with bilingual Canada. Detailed essays by other literature professors (e.g., Alexande...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
