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The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature

Author: Michael North
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series: Race and American culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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