Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 252 p.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Race and American culture

Subject

1. Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Nigger of the Narcissus
2. Dialect literature, American > History and criticism
3. Black English in literature
4. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
5. Modernism (Literature) > United States
6. Language and culture
7. African Americans in literature
8. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
9. Race in literature

Contents

1. 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 expatration 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 94-474

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. North, Michael, 1951-

Title

1. The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / Michael North.

Imprint

1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Series

1. Race and American culture

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 93036288

ISBN

1. 0195085167 (acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 94-474