Multilingual America
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Multilingual America
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Author : Werner Sollors
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1998-08
Multilingual America written by Werner Sollors and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Translation And Transnationalism In American Regional Literature
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Author : Veronica Kirk-Clausen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Translation And Transnationalism In American Regional Literature written by Veronica Kirk-Clausen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Multilingual America
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Author : Lawrence Alan Rosenwald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-25
Multilingual America written by Lawrence Alan Rosenwald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages.
Languages In America
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Author : Susan J. Dicker
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Release Date : 1996
Languages In America written by Susan J. Dicker and has been published by Multilingual Matters Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Tackling the language issues facing an increasingly diverse nation, this volume draws on the disciplines of linguistics, history and sociology in its analysis. It offers opposing viewpoints on matters of language diversity and argues convincingly in its favour.
American Studies In Scandinavia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
American Studies In Scandinavia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with America categories.
Intercultural America
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Author : Alfred Hornung
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2007
Intercultural America written by Alfred Hornung and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Includes revised and updated papers from an international conference on "Intercultural America" that was held in 2002.
The Role Of Religion Tradition And Modernity In Contemporary Jewish American Literature
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Author : Alina Polyak
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-07-31
The Role Of Religion Tradition And Modernity In Contemporary Jewish American Literature written by Alina Polyak and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: In der Magisterarbeit handelt es sich um die Rolle der Religion in der modernen jüdisch-amerikanischen Literatur. Die Suche nach den Wurzeln ist ein Trend in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft geworden. Dieser Trend widerspiegelt sich auch in Kunst und Literatur. Die Gesellschaft wandelt sich von einem "Schmelztiegel" in eine multiethnische und multikulturelle Gesellschaft. Viele Autoren wenden sich in ihren Werken an die Kultur ihrer Vorfahren. Die jüdisch-amerikanische Literatur ist auch ein Beispiel hierfür. Es ist fast unmöglich, die Kultur von der Religion zu trennen, denn wenn es sich um jüdische Themen handelt, geht es um die Kultur, die eng mit der jüdischen Religion verbunden ist. Judentum ist eine Religion, die mit Zeit und Geschichte eng verbunden ist. Selbst wenn Autoren sich mit säkularen Themen beschäftigen, gibt es trotzdem eine Anbindung an die religiöse Problematik. Viele moderne Werke sind von Autoren geschrieben, die fundiertes Wissen vom Judentum haben, sie benutzen oft jüdische Sprachen, Figuren aus der Folklore und religiöse Ideen. Es gibt einen großen Unterschied zwischen den frühen Werken von Immigranten und den modernen Werken der amerikanisch-jüdischen Autoren der dritten Generation. Während die Immigrantenautoren sich bemüht haben, sich so schnell wie möglich zu assimilieren und die Welt der Väter hinter sich zu lassen, haben die jüngsten Autoren in ihren Werken die jüdischen Themen neu entdeckt. Für die Autoren der ersten Generation war das Erlernen der englischen Sprache sehr wichtig. Die Autoren von heute haben Englisch als Muttersprache. Sie schreiben zwar auf Englisch, benutzen aber sehr häufig Begriffe oder Ausdrücke, die nicht erklärt oder übersetzt sind aus den jüdischen Sprachen Hebräisch und Jiddisch. Jüdische Literatur war immer multilingual. Hebräisch is
Transnational America
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Author : Berndt Ostendorf
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2002
Transnational America written by Berndt Ostendorf and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
Transnationalism has become one of the new key concepts designed to highlight areas of a positive dynamics in the context of an as yet amorphous process of globalization (which many consider as tantamount to Americanization). But what does the much-quoted "fading of borders" imply when we study its manifestations in the Western Hemisphere? Are the classic markers and containers of self, of culture, of ethnic or racial identity, of economic and political nation truly fading? Or are we witnessing a realignment of bordersi Perhaps merely a displacement, that is new borders and with it a tacit reconfiguration of empire? The contributors of this volume originally presented their ideas at a conference organized by the Bavarian American Academy. Thomas J. Courchene, Jurgen Kahler, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Stefan Rinke, Reg Whitaker, John Urry, Paul Ashdown, Todd Gitlin, Susan H. Armitage, John Carlos Rowe, Werner Sollors, Stephan Palmie and Patricia Fernssndez-Kelly address the question of transnationalism from the perspectives of political sciences, economics, cultural studies, history, sociology and literature. Novelist Bharati Mukherjee concludes the volume by responding to the theoretical aspects raised by the contributors and by adding a fictional exemplification of the formation of a truly transnational American consciousness.
Locke In America
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Author : Jerome Huyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Locke In America written by Jerome Huyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
An account of the link between Locke's thought and the American Founding. The author argues that previous writers have misread Locke's influence on the Founders: he portrays the philosopher as a moderate 17th-century moralist advocating an individualism that fits well with classic republicanism.
German American Literature
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Author : Winfried Fluck
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2002
German American Literature written by Winfried Fluck and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.
More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies. German? American? Literature? reintroduces the modern reader to a fascinating subject that has gained new relevance in an age of increased global migrations.