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The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature
- Title
- The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / Michael North.
- Author
- North, Michael, 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Details
- Description
- 252 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Race and American culture
- Subjects
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Nigger of the Narcissus
- Dialect literature, American > History and criticism
- Black English in literature
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- Language and culture
- African Americans in literature
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Against the standard : linguistic imitation, racial masquerade, and the modernist rebellion -- The Nigger of the "Narcissus" as a preface to modernism -- Modernism's African mask : the Stein-Picasso collaboration -- Old Possum and Brer Rabbit : Pound and Eliot's racial masquerade -- Quashie to buccra : the linguistic expatration of Claude McKay -- Race, the American language, and the Americanist avant-garde -- Two strangers in the American language : William Carlos Williams and Jean Toomer -- "Characteristics of Negro expression" : Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro anthology.
- Call Number
- Sc E 94-474
- ISBN
- 0195085167 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 93036288
- OCLC
- 28848366
- NYPG94-B35906
- Author
- North, Michael, 1951-
- Title
- The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / Michael North.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Series
- Race and American culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 94-474