| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Not English Only: Redefining "American" in American Studies. Ed. by Orm Øverland. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001. 202 pp. Paper, € 48.80, ISBN 90-5383-756-6.)

The Norwegian literary scholar Orm Øverland draws upon papers from four American studies conferences, two American and two European, to illustrate the important if often forgotten fact that there were and still are American (that is, U.S.) literatures written in languages other than English. In his introduction, Øverland points up the practical, institutional obstacles to this type of study both in Europe, where most such scholars, himself included, are stepchildren of English departments, and in the United States, where efforts are hampered by "the general inability to cope with more than one language" (p. 4) and where even ethnic studies courses often operate exclusively in English. This linguistic compartmentalization carries over even to the American library classification system, so that an Ole Rølvaag ends up in Knut Hamsun's neighborhood instead of with Hamlin Garland where he belongs.

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