Sounds of defiance : the Holocaust, multilingualism, and the problem of English / Alan Rosen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-241) and index.

Evidence of trauma : English as perplexity in David Boder's topical autobiographies -- An entirely different culture : English as translation in John Hersey's The wall -- What does he speak?: English as mastery in Ruth Chatterton's Homeward borne -- Please speak English : babbling in Philip Roth's "Eli, the fanatic" -- From law to outlaw : borrowed English in Edward Wallant's The pawnbroker -- Law's languages : Hannah Arendt's mother and other tongues -- Say "good boy" : legitimizing English in Sidney Lumet's The pawnbroker -- Cracking her teeth : broken English in Cynthia Ozick's fiction and essays -- Language of dollars : English as intruder in Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic tales of the Holocaust -- Language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Eaten away by silence : English as elegy in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces.