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The Multilingual anthology of American literature : a reader of original texts with English translations, edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors

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Summary
"The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is." "American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories." "Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language."--BOOK JACKET
Language
  • pol
  • rus
  • wel
  • yid
  • swe
  • nor
  • nav
  • heb
  • dan
  • gem
  • eng
  • chi
  • hun
  • gre
  • alg
  • ita
  • ara
  • del
  • fre
  • spa
  • ger
  • eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiii, 750 pages
Note
"A Longfellow Institute book."
Contents
  • The walam olum or the red score of the Lenape
  • "The mulatto"
  • Victor Séjour
  • "Circular"
  • W. Branford Shubrick and S.W. Kearny
  • "Lesbian love"
  • Ludwig von Reizenstein
  • "To citizen John Brown"
  • Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Peppino
  • Bee-hive
  • Luigi Donato Ventura
  • Calm after the storm
  • Eusebio Chaćon
  • "Letter from a Jew to Alexander III"
  • "Letter from Alexander III to Yankel"
  • Dafydd Morgan
  • R.R. Williams
  • "The Tyrolean"
  • Julian Czupka
  • History of the United States
  • Francis Daniel Pastorius
  • Abraham Cahan
  • "The revenge of the forest primeval"
  • Konrad Nies
  • "A misunderstood people"
  • Johan Person
  • "The Swedish-American"
  • C.W. Andeer
  • "The road to the Golden Gate"
  • Ole Amundsen Buslett
  • "Navajo gambling songs and night chants"
  • Petition from the Indians at Mashpee to the Massachusetts General Court
  • Eda Lou Walton
  • "The staff of Judah"
  • Judah Leib Lazerow
  • Poems
  • Jens Thorgaard
  • Germerican writing from the 1920s
  • Kurt M. Stein
  • "The copper kettle"
  • Dorothea Dahl
  • Angel Island poetry
  • Marginal annotations to Eliot's translation of the Bible
  • "Three American dreams"
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • "Occidental cantata"
  • György Gyékényesi
  • "Apparent death"
  • Stratis Haviaras
  • "Abortion"
  • Pan Xiumei
  • "Convocation of words"
  • Tino Villanueva
  • Poet's lament
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte
  • The life of Omar Ibn Said
  • Omar Ibn Said
Isbn
9780814797532
Instance
Label
The Multilingual anthology of American literature : a reader of original texts with English translations
Title
The Multilingual anthology of American literature
Title remainder
a reader of original texts with English translations
Statement of responsibility
edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • pol
  • rus
  • wel
  • yid
  • swe
  • nor
  • nav
  • heb
  • dan
  • gem
  • eng
  • chi
  • hun
  • gre
  • alg
  • ita
  • ara
  • del
  • fre
  • spa
  • ger
  • eng
Summary
"The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is." "American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories." "Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language."--BOOK JACKET
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
808.8/9973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN849.U52
LC item number
M85 2000
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Shell, Marc
  • Sollors, Werner
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  • United States
  • United States
Label
The Multilingual anthology of American literature : a reader of original texts with English translations, edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"A Longfellow Institute book."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-744) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The walam olum or the red score of the Lenape
  • "The mulatto"
  • Victor Séjour
  • "Circular"
  • W. Branford Shubrick and S.W. Kearny
  • "Lesbian love"
  • Ludwig von Reizenstein
  • "To citizen John Brown"
  • Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Peppino
  • Bee-hive
  • Luigi Donato Ventura
  • Calm after the storm
  • Eusebio Chaćon
  • "Letter from a Jew to Alexander III"
  • "Letter from Alexander III to Yankel"
  • Dafydd Morgan
  • R.R. Williams
  • "The Tyrolean"
  • Julian Czupka
  • History of the United States
  • Francis Daniel Pastorius
  • Abraham Cahan
  • "The revenge of the forest primeval"
  • Konrad Nies
  • "A misunderstood people"
  • Johan Person
  • "The Swedish-American"
  • C.W. Andeer
  • "The road to the Golden Gate"
  • Ole Amundsen Buslett
  • "Navajo gambling songs and night chants"
  • Petition from the Indians at Mashpee to the Massachusetts General Court
  • Eda Lou Walton
  • "The staff of Judah"
  • Judah Leib Lazerow
  • Poems
  • Jens Thorgaard
  • Germerican writing from the 1920s
  • Kurt M. Stein
  • "The copper kettle"
  • Dorothea Dahl
  • Angel Island poetry
  • Marginal annotations to Eliot's translation of the Bible
  • "Three American dreams"
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • "Occidental cantata"
  • György Gyékényesi
  • "Apparent death"
  • Stratis Haviaras
  • "Abortion"
  • Pan Xiumei
  • "Convocation of words"
  • Tino Villanueva
  • Poet's lament
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte
  • The life of Omar Ibn Said
  • Omar Ibn Said
Control code
44090406
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xiii, 750 pages
Isbn
9780814797532
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
00030535
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
The Multilingual anthology of American literature : a reader of original texts with English translations, edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors
Publication
Note
"A Longfellow Institute book."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-744) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The walam olum or the red score of the Lenape
  • "The mulatto"
  • Victor Séjour
  • "Circular"
  • W. Branford Shubrick and S.W. Kearny
  • "Lesbian love"
  • Ludwig von Reizenstein
  • "To citizen John Brown"
  • Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Peppino
  • Bee-hive
  • Luigi Donato Ventura
  • Calm after the storm
  • Eusebio Chaćon
  • "Letter from a Jew to Alexander III"
  • "Letter from Alexander III to Yankel"
  • Dafydd Morgan
  • R.R. Williams
  • "The Tyrolean"
  • Julian Czupka
  • History of the United States
  • Francis Daniel Pastorius
  • Abraham Cahan
  • "The revenge of the forest primeval"
  • Konrad Nies
  • "A misunderstood people"
  • Johan Person
  • "The Swedish-American"
  • C.W. Andeer
  • "The road to the Golden Gate"
  • Ole Amundsen Buslett
  • "Navajo gambling songs and night chants"
  • Petition from the Indians at Mashpee to the Massachusetts General Court
  • Eda Lou Walton
  • "The staff of Judah"
  • Judah Leib Lazerow
  • Poems
  • Jens Thorgaard
  • Germerican writing from the 1920s
  • Kurt M. Stein
  • "The copper kettle"
  • Dorothea Dahl
  • Angel Island poetry
  • Marginal annotations to Eliot's translation of the Bible
  • "Three American dreams"
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • "Occidental cantata"
  • György Gyékényesi
  • "Apparent death"
  • Stratis Haviaras
  • "Abortion"
  • Pan Xiumei
  • "Convocation of words"
  • Tino Villanueva
  • Poet's lament
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte
  • The life of Omar Ibn Said
  • Omar Ibn Said
Control code
44090406
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xiii, 750 pages
Isbn
9780814797532
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
00030535
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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