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"Languages for America": Race, Dialect, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2011)
I argue the process of institutionalizing linguistic stereotypes began as authors during the nineteenth century pursued ways of characterizing the voices of literary figures using nontraditional languages. Literary dialects ...
BIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2011)
This dissertation critically examines the concept of Jewish-American literary hyphenation, analyzing its historical and theoretical consequences (chapters one and two), then applying the results of that analysis to three ...