UID:
almafu_9959231810902883
Format:
1 online resource (309 pages)
ISBN:
0-19-028411-0
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0-19-772373-X
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1-280-52703-X
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0-19-535910-0
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1-4294-0576-7
Series Statement:
Race and American culture
Content:
This text describes the role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Revolting against the standard language, modernists reimagined themselves as racial aliens & mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers.
Note:
Originally published: 1994.
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Previously issued in print: 1994.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512291-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-508516-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195085167.001.0001
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