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| Named Person: | Joseph Conrad |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael North |
| ISBN: | 0195122917 9780195122916 0195085167 9780195085167 |
| OCLC Number: | 39713416 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | 252 p. : ill., 1 port. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 Title: | Race and American culture. |
| Responsibility: | Michael North. |
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- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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- 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.
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- Moderne.
- Mundart.
- Schwarze.
- USA.

