Wanderwords :language migration in American literature
ix, 330 pages ; 25 cm.
New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Includes bibliographical references )pages 285-312( and index
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Wanderwords: history and context2. How Not to Tame a Wild Tongue: wanderwords in theory3. Paradise, Lost in Translation: Mary Antin and Eva Hoffman 4. With a Dutch Accent: Edward Bok, Dirk Nieland and Truus van Bruinessen5. Vomiting Spanish: Richard Rodriguez's passages6. Fusion Writing: Bharati Mukherjee's dangerous languages7. Words Cast to Weather: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dicte;e 8. Escribir y Leer Bilingually: Spanish/English and Spanglish: American literature in the twenty-first centuryBibliographyIndex