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

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

Author/creator	Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Description	xiv, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-241) and index.
LCCN	2005001442
ISBN	0803239629 (cloth)
ISBN	0803205287 (electronic)
ISBN	9780803239623
ISBN	9780803205284

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