Between Two Worlds: Slovak Language and American Identity in Out of This Furnace.
Thomas Bell's 1941 novel Out of This Furnace, a fictionalized account of his family's immigration from eastern Slovakia to industrial Pittsburgh, is a significant example of the use of 'mixed languages' in ethnic American literature. It was translated from English into Slovak in 1949 as Dva svety (T...
| Published in: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 74 - 89 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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