Workshop 14 on "Languages Of What Is Now the United States"
met on March 22 and March 23, 1996 at the
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES (EAAS)
CONVENTION IN WARSAW (POLAND), and I am now planning
to edit a volume of essays based on the presentations at the conference.
For this purpose I am soliciting new essays on culturally fascinating,
historically important, and aesthetically outstanding non-anglophone
literature in the United States, ranging from works in Amerindian
languages
and Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and Russian colonial writings to
immigrant literature in all European languages, in Chinese and Japanese,
as well as Arabic texts by African Americans.
The volume will contain essays on Polish, Yiddish, Italian, Norwegian,
Welsh, German, and Turkish-language texts, and I am looking for more
contributions on works written or published in the United States in any
language other than English. Especially welcome is the presentation of
exemplary non-anglophone texts that may force a questioning of past
generalizations about "literature of the United States." Essays on the
history of language transmission, suppression, and loss in the United
States will also be considered.
Please use Chicago or Harvard English Studies form (that is, use footnotes
rather than parentheses), and send essays in hard copy and on disk
by September 15, 1996
to
Werner Sollors,
Longfellow Institute
Department of English
Harvard University
Warren House
11 Prescott Street
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
fax: (001) 617 496 8737
e-mail: sollors@husc.harvard.edu