Editing Multilingualism (section)

===Fiction===
Multilingual stories, essays, and novels are often written by immigrants and [[Second-generation immigrants in the United States|second generation American]] authors.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-02-07|title=Second-Generation Americans|url=https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/07/second-generation-americans/|access-date=2020-11-04|website=Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Project|language=en-US|archive-date=4 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104014738/https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/07/second-generation-americans/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Second Generation Stories {{!}} Literature by Children of Immigrants|url=https://secondgenstories.com/|access-date=2020-11-04|language=en-US|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029171756/https://secondgenstories.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Chicano|Chicana]] author [[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]], a major figure in the fields [[Third-World Feminism|Third World Feminism]], [[Postcolonial feminism|Postcolonial Feminism]], and [[Latino philosophy]] explained the author's existential sense of obligation to write multilingual literature.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lunsford|first1=Andrea A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nH_9bkigKmgC&q=gloria+anzaldua+postcolonial+feminism&pg=PP1|title=Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies|last2=Ouzgane|first2=Lahoucine|date=2004-01-01|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7253-2|language=en}}</ref> An often quoted passage, from her collection of stories and essays entitled ''[[Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza]]'', states:<blockquote>"Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue – my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence".<ref name="Fowler-2019">{{cite news |last1=Fowler |first1=Yara Rodrigues |title=Top 10 bilingual books |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/17/top-10-bilingual-books |work=the Guardian |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=4 November 2020 |archive-date=7 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207193836/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/17/top-10-bilingual-books |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>Multilingual novels by [[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]] display phrases in [[Igbo language|Igbo]] with translations, as in her early works [[Purple Hibiscus (novel)|''Purple Hibiscus'']] and ''[[Half of a Yellow Sun]]''. However, in her later novel ''[[Americanah]]'', the author does not offer translations of non-English passages.<ref name="Fowler-2019" /> ''[[The House on Mango Street]]'' by [[Sandra Cisneros]] is an example of [[Chicano literature]] that leaves Spanish words and phrases untranslated (though italicized) throughout the text.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hispanic Heritage Month: Recommending Latin American Women Authors|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/09/24/hispanic-heritage-month-women-latin-american-authors-recommendations|access-date=2020-11-04|website=The New York Public Library|archive-date=21 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821014659/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/09/24/hispanic-heritage-month-women-latin-american-authors-recommendations|url-status=live}}</ref>

American novelists who use foreign languages (outside of their own cultural heritage) for literary effect include [[Cormac McCarthy]], who uses untranslated Spanish and [[Spanglish]] in his fiction.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Thinking in Uno and Reading en Otro: Codeswitching in American Novels |url=https://rio.tamiu.edu/etds/7 |publisher=Texas AM International University |language=en |first=Mary Elizabeth |last=Munoz}}</ref>