American Babel

Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni

Edited by Marc Shell

    American Babel acts enlighteningly on the proposition that from the outset American literature has looked as much to a multilingual as to an English-language literary record...The twenty-five essays which make up the collection confirm a genuine variety of voice...[and] should help deliver a provocative and timely reminder of what historically have always been the more inclusive languages of America's literary-cultural voice.
       --Year's Work in English Studies

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Marc Shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University.