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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joshua L Miller |
| ISBN: | 9780195336993 0195336992 9780195337006 019533700X |
| OCLC Number: | 700524741 |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Description: | 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD ; INTRODUCTION: "EVERY KIND OF MIXING" ; 1. Reinventing vox Americana ; LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY ; MENCKEN AND THE CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY ; CONTEMPORARY "AMERICAN" AS STANDARD VERNACULAR ; 2. Documenting "American" ; "A STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED" ; 3. Foreignizing "english" ; THE MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL "ENGLISH" ; MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A. ; LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USES OF DESPAIR ; 4. Vernacularizing Silence ; "FLESH OF THEIR LANGUAGE" ; "BEEN SHAPIN WORDS T FIT M SOUL": TOOMER'S CANE ; 5. Translating "Englitch" ; "KENT'CHA TUCK ENGLITCH?": LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE IN CALL IT SLEEP ; "THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH LIFE IS CULTURAL, IS IT NOT?": THE POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE ; THE RETURN OF THE DEPRESSED ; 6. Spanglicizing Modernism ; U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX ; "BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND": PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH ; "CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS THE BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?": BULOSAN'S AMERICA ; IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION ; CONCLUSION: "SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE" |
| Series Title: | Modernist literature & culture |
| Responsibility: | by Joshua L. Miller. |
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<br>"Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating." --Werner Sollors, author of Ethnic Modernism<p><br>"Accented America makes a brilliant case for the multilingual dimension of American modernist writing. By focusing on how authors imagined, negotiated, translated and represented the languages that shaped their worlds, Miller has greatly enriched ongoing debates about ethnicity, race and class in modernist fiction. He has demonstrated that attention to linguistic policies, strategies, and voices brings poetics and politics into sharper focus." --Hana Wirth-Nesher, author of Call It English<p><br>"A remarkable piece of scholarly work. It is a dense book that will dazzle its readers with its acute literary analyses...Accented America deserves to be unanimously praised as an outstanding contribution to the understanding of American modernism and language diversity."--Linguist List<p><br> Read more...
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- Nationale kenmerken
- Bellettrie
- Meertaligheid
- Verenigde Staten
- Amerikanismus.
- Literatur.
- Mehrsprachigkeit.
- USA.
- American literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Multilingualism and literature.
- Americanisms in literature.
