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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812615503321

Autore

North Michael <1951->

Titolo

The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / / Michael North

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994

ISBN

0-19-772373-X

1-280-52703-X

0-19-535910-0

1-4294-0576-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages)

Collana

Race and American culture

Disciplina

810.9005

810.9896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Dialect literature, American - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

African Americans in literature

Black English in literature

Language and culture

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

This treatise describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. It describes how modernists have rebelled against the standard image, reimagining themselves as racial aliens and mimicking the strategies of dialect speakers.