American Babel

Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni

Edited by Marc Shell

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$35.50 • £28.95 • €32.00

ISBN 9780674006614

Publication Date: 09/23/2002

Short

544 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

14 halftones

Harvard English Studies

World

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“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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