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Author:

North, Michael, 1951-

Title:

Dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / Michael North.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

252 p. : ill., 1 port. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Dialect literature, American--History and criticism.
Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.--Nigger of the Narcissus.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Black English in literature.
Language and culture.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) 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 expatriation 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.

Series:

Race and American culture

ISBN:

9780195122916 (pbk.)
0195122917 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39713416

LCCN:

93036288

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)