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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...

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Published in:Comparative American Studies Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 74 - 89
Main Author: Sabatos, Charles
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2013
Subjects:
Out of This Furnace (Book)
Bell, Thomas, 1903-1961
Minority American literature
Slovak Americans
Mixed languages
Literature translations
American identity
Literary criticism
20th century American literature
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