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The dialect of modernism: race, language, and twentieth-century literature / Michael North.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- North, Michael, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Race and American culture.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Race and American culture
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Dialect literature, American--History and criticism.
- Dialect literature, American.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text describes the role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Revolting against the standard language, modernists reimagined themselves as racial aliens & mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and the Modernist Rebellion; 2. The Nigger of the ""Narcissus "" as a Preface to Modernism; 3. Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration; 4. Old Possum and Brer Rabbit: Pound and Eliot's Racial Masquerade; 5. Quashie to Buccra: The Linguistic Expatriation of Claude McKay; 6. Race, the American Language, and the Americanist Avant-Garde; 7. Two Strangers in the American Language: William Carlos Williams and Jean Toomer
- 8. ""Characteristics of Negro Expression"": Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro AnthologyNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1994.
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028411-0
- 0-19-772373-X
- 1-280-52703-X
- 0-19-535910-0
- 1-4294-0576-7
- OCLC:
- 700680568
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