The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / / Michael North
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| Autore: |
North Michael <1951->
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| Titolo: |
The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / / Michael North
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9005 |
| 810.9896073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dialect of modernism |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772373-X |
| 1-280-52703-X | |
| 0-19-535910-0 | |
| 1-4294-0576-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777022003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Race and American culture.