Are you a member of the Modern Language Association? If so I'd love to ask
you for your support of my motion of starting a discussion group in
languages and literatures of what is now the United States, focusing on
texts in languages other than English.
In case you are willing to help, could you please send me the
signed statement that follows? Thanks. WS (I'll need 35 signatures by
March 15).
Please mail (and e-mail) the following to:
W. Sollors, Longfellow Institute, Harvard University,
Dept. of English and American Language and Literature,
11 Prescott St, Cambridge MA 02138, USA, NAFTA.
sollors@HUSC.HARVARD.EDU
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I am a member of the Modern Language Association and support the creation
of a new discussion group in languages and literatures of what is now the
United States, focusing on texts written or published in languages other
than English
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(Name, Date, Affiliation)
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EXPLANATORY NOTE:
The new MLA discussion group is intended to stimulate scholarly work on
texts that were written or published in what is now the United States in any
language other than English. The group will have the task to identify, and to
bring back as the subject of study, the multitudes of culturally fascinating,
historically important, or aesthetically interesting texts that were written in
languages other than English, ranging, for example, from works in indigenous
Amerindian languages, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Yiddish,
Russian, Chinese, and Japanese, to Arabic and French texts by African
Americans.
The group will support reprinting, translations, and the publication of
bilingual editions and will build up an international network of scholars and
students working on the languages of what is now the United States.