03610nam 2200805Ia 450 991045140380332120211005093459.01-280-52703-X0-19-535910-01-4294-0576-7(CKB)1000000000414436(EBL)272881(OCoLC)700680568(SSID)ssj0000138339(PQKBManifestationID)11159133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138339(PQKBWorkID)10100429(PQKB)10661792(MiAaPQ)EBC272881(Au-PeEL)EBL272881(CaPaEBR)ebr10279086(CaONFJC)MIL52703(MiAaPQ)EBC2012798(Au-PeEL)EBL2012798(EXLCZ)99100000000041443619930823d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dialect of modernism[electronic resource] race, language, and twentieth-century literature /Michael NorthNew York Oxford University Press19941 online resource (309 p.)Race and American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-512291-7 0-19-508516-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.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 Toomer8. ""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; YThis 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.Race and American culture.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismDialect literature, AmericanHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesAfrican Americans in literatureBlack English in literatureLanguage and cultureRace in literatureElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Dialect literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)African Americans in literature.Black English in literature.Language and culture.Race in literature.810.9005810.9896073North Michael1951-1027111MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451403803321The dialect of modernism2442370UNINA