Babel in America -- The name of America -- "And in a Christian language they sold me": messages concealed in a slave's Arabic-language autobiographical narrative -- Unfaithful translation: bilingual versions as Greek-American strategies of concealment -- Disturbing the language peace: German-Jewish women poets in Aufbau, 1933-1993 -- Mordecai and Haman: the drama of Welsh America -- Ferdinand Kürnberger's Der Amerika-müde (1855): German-language literature about the United States, and German-American writing -- "Neither the King's English nor the Rebbetzin's Yiddish": Yinglish literature in the United States -- Homing pidgins: another version of pastoral in Hawai'i -- Irish Gaelic literature in the United States -- Alfred Mercier's polyglot plantation novel of Louisiana -- Written in sound: translating the multiple voices of the Zuni storyteller -- Contrapuntal languages: the games they play in Spanish -- America, everybody's other world -- The Gothic and the American-exotic: Baron Ludig von Reizenstein's Die geheimnisse von New-Orleans -- Grave matters: poetry and the preservation of the Welsh language in the United States -- Beyond the national tradition: Thuong Vuong-Riddick's Two shores/deux rives -- The Welsh Atlantic: mapping the contexts of Welsh-American literature -- Carved on the walls: the archaeology and canonization of the Angel Island Chinese poems -- Immigration blues: the portrayal of Chinatown life in Chinese-language literature in America -- "China" in the American diaspora -- Haitian literature in the United States, 1948-1986 -- Translingualism and the American literary imagination -- What is Aufklärung (in Pennsylvania)? -- "Prized his mouth open": Mark Twain's The jumping frog of Calaveras county: in English, then in French, then clawed back into civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil.