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[Henrietta Naughton]

An1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in working-class Chinatown. "Lesbian Love," a surprisingly explicit chapter from an 1853 New Orleans novel. A haunting 1904 ballad, "The Revenge of the Forests," that is one of the first expressions of radical environmentalism in the United States.

Largely ignored in the debates over canon and multiculturalism in America, indigenous American works written in languages other than English have over time disappeared from view.

The first anthology of its kind, The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language with facing page translation, the book provides an important complement to all other anthologies of American writing, and will serve to complicate our understanding of what exactly American literature is.

American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.

Consider that Cotton Mather spoke half a dozen languages and wrote in both Spanish and Latin. Or that the first short story known to have been written by an African American (and reproduced here) was written in French. Not only a literature of immigration and assimilation, American multilingual literature participates in the larger literary tradition which too often marginalizes authors who complicate the fit of authorship, citizenship, and language.

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor , Emeritus, of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature, Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader, and Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature, all available from NYU Press.

Anthologies provide a means to define, transmit, and reproduce "American Literature. "The twovolume anthologies for courses in higher education are the objects of this study. In them "American Literature" is conventionally defined, but at the same time each new anthology on the market presents itself as different from the previous ones. Proclamations of newness were particularly evident in 1990, when The Heath Anthology of American Literature brought "diversity" and "reconstruction" into the anthologization.

This study analyzes the anthologization process as an interaction between forces of continuity and pressures for change. Apart from the Heath anthology, I consider different editions of The American Tradition of American Literature and The Norton Anthology of American literature. For each of them, I seek to analyze the literary protocol, that is, how anthologies select, organize, and present authors and texts. Two parts of the protocol are selected to examine the interaction of structure and agency: the prefaces and the essays introducing the 1865-1914 period. The prefaces demonstrate that anthologization always negotiates literature and history in the production of national value, and the period introductions negotiate the received record of a historical period.

Since the anthologization is based on and reproduces an invented literary tradition, opportunities for change are limited. The competition on the anthology market changes but conventionalizes "American Literature." As an academic textbook the anthology provides legitimacy, but it is also part of the hierarchy which characterizes the academic structure. The pressure for change in anthologies may come from outside, as political demands, but are then mediated by the academy. An analysis of how the "culture wars "impacted on anthologization shows how political differences turn into cultural positions conditioned by the continuity of the academy.

The final principle to manage diversity is, I argue, the marketing of "American Literature" as a symbolic goodwhich incorporates national value. This unity of purpose reifies literature and overrules differences. Thus the national anthologization process manages the diversity which may be argued by individual anthologies.

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