Sounds of defiance : the Holocaust, multilingualism, and the problem of English /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. English language > Spoken English. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Speech in literature. English language > Social aspects. English language > Style. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Evidence of trauma : English as perplexity in David Boder's topical autobiographies
An entirely different culture : English as translation in John Hersey's The wall
What does he speak?: English as mastery in Ruth Chatterton's Homeward borne
Please speak English : babbling in Philip Roth's "Eli, the fanatic"
From law to outlaw : borrowed English in Edward Wallant's The pawnbroker
Law's languages : Hannah Arendt's mother and other tongues
Say "good boy" : legitimizing English in Sidney Lumet's The pawnbroker
Cracking her teeth : broken English in Cynthia Ozick's fiction and essays
The language of dollars : English as intruder in Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic tales of the Holocaust
The language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus
Eaten away by silence : English as elegy in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces.