LEADER 03554nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910777022003321 005 20230421044728.0 010 $a0-19-772373-X 010 $a1-280-52703-X 010 $a0-19-535910-0 010 $a1-4294-0576-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000414436 035 $a(EBL)272881 035 $a(OCoLC)700680568 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000138339 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138339 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100429 035 $a(PQKB)10661792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272881 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279086 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52703 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2012798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272881 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414436 100 $a19930823d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dialect of modernism $erace, language, and twentieth-century literature /$fMichael North 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (309 pages) 225 1 $aRace and American culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-512291-7 311 $a0-19-508516-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8. ""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 330 $aThis treatise describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. It describes how modernists have rebelled against the standard image, reimagining themselves as racial aliens and mimicking the strategies of dialect speakers. 410 0$aRace and American culture. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDialect literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aBlack English in literature 606 $aLanguage and culture 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDialect literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aBlack English in literature. 615 0$aLanguage and culture. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9005 676 $a810.9896073 700 $aNorth$b Michael$f1951-$01482023 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777022003321 996 $aThe dialect of modernism$93804705 997 $aUNINA