aThis volume is invaluable and provides essential source as wake-up
call for both professionals and general audiences to recognize that
American literature is multilingual throughout its history and, if
present demographic trends continue, will rapidly become more
multicultural.a
--"Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development"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.
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