Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

xix, 339 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proclamations -- Kamala Das -- An introduction -- Ian Buruma -- The road to Babel -- Eighty-first world Esperanto congress -- Manifesto de Prago -- The Prague Manifesto (English translation) -- Leopold Sédar Senghor -- French, Language of Culture -- Gloria An Zaldúa -- How to tame a wild tongue -- conversions -- Mary Antin -- Initiation -- Julia Alvarex -- My English -- Ha Jin -- Interview with Ha Jin -- Andrew Lam -- My American Beginning -- Chang-rae Lee -- Interview with Chang-rae Lee -- between languages -- Baal-Makhshoves -- One literature in two languages -- Ilan Stavans -- Autobiographical essay -- Esmeralda Santiago -- Introduction to Cuando era puertorriqueña -- Rosario Ferré -- Bilingual in Puerto Rico -- Luc Sante -- Dummy -- Controversies -- Africa -- Ngùgì wa Thiong'o -- Imperialism of Language: English, a language for the world? -- Gabriel Okara -- African Speech ... English words -- Chinua Achebe -- The African Writer and the English Langyage -- André Brink -- English and the Afrikans Writer -- Hein Willemse -- The black Afrikaans writer -- A continuing dichotomy -- India -- Raja Rao -- From the author's foreword to Kanthapura -- Salman Rushdie -- Damme, this is the Oriental scene for you! -- C.J.S. Wallia -- Response to Salman Rushdie -- Deprivations -- Gerda Lerner -- living in translation -- Arthur Koestler -- From "Becoming Anglicised" -- Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- Dedication -- Resistance -- Elias Canetti -- From The play of the eyes -- Assia Djebar -- From "Writing in the language of the other" -- Marjorie Agosín -- From "Words: a basket of love."

Multilingualism and literature.

Kellman, Steven G., 1947-

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