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PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Babel in America 3 MARC SHELL 2. The Name of America 34 ALEXANDER DEL MAR PART II. RESISTANCE AND ASSIMILATION 3. "And in a Christian Language They Sold Me": 41 Messages Concealed in a Slave's Arabic-Language Autobiographical Narrative ALA ALRYYES 4. Unfaithful Translation: Bilingual Versions as 55 Greek-American Strategies of Concealment YOTA BATSAKI 5. Disturbing the Language Peace: German-Jewish 74 Women Poets in Aufbau, 1933-1993 ELISABETH LENCKOS 6. Mordecai and Haman: The Drama of Welsh 93 America ESTHER WHITFIELD 7. Ferdinand Kiirnberger's DerAmerika-Miide (1855): I 17 German-Language Literature about the United States, and German-American Writing WERNER SOLLORS PART III. AUTHORITATIVE AND NONAUTHORITATIVE LANGUAGES 8. 'Neither the King's English nor the Rebbetzin's 133 Yiddish': Yinglish Literature in the United States JAMES LOEFFLER 9. Homing Pidgins: Another Version of Pastoral 163 in Hawai'i SUSANNAH YOUNG-AH GOTTLIEB 10. Irish Gaelic Literature in the United States 188 KENNETH NILSEN 11. Alfred Mercier's Polyglot Plantation Novel 219 of Louisiana LAWRENCE ROSENWALD 12. Written in Sound: Translating the Multiple 238 Voices of the Zuni Storyteller DENNIS TEDLOCK PART IV. LOSS AND GAIN 13. Contrapuntal Languages: The Games They 263 Play in Spanish DORIS SOMMER 14. America, Everybody's Other World 283 ALICIA BORINSKY 15. The Gothic and the American-Exotic: Baron 297 Ludwig von Reizenstein's Die Geheimnisse von New-Orleans STEVEN ROWAN 16. Grave Matters: Poetry and the Preservation 307 of the Welsh Language in the United States MELINDA GRAY 17. Beyond the National Tradition: Thuong Vuong- 322 Riddick's Two Shores/Deux Rives DAN DUFFY PART V. NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM 18. The Welsh Atlantic: Mapping the Contexts 343 of Welsh-American Literature DANIEL WILLIAMS 19. Carved on the Walls: The Archaeology and 369 Canonization of the Angel Island Chinese Poems TE-HSING SHAN 20. Immigration Blues: The Portrayal of Chinatown 386 Life in Chinese-Language Literature in America XIAO-HUANG YIN 21. "China' in the American Diaspora 404 QIAN SUOQIAO 22. Haitian Literature in the United States, 431 1948-1986 JEAN JONASSAINT 23. Translingualism and the American Literary 450 Imagination STEVEN G. KELLMAN 24. What Is Aufkliirung (in Pennsylvania)? 465 PETER FENVES PART VI.AFTERWORD 25. "Prized His Mouth Open": Mark Twain's The 491 Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: in English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil MARC SHELL