The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language & Twentieth-Century Literature: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Race and American Culture) - Softcover

North, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195122917 ISBN 13: 9780195122916

Verlag: Oxford University Press USA, 1994

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Book by North Michael

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Críticas

All readers...will be hard-pressed to deny North's revisionary insight for twentieth-century literary studies: black dialect as performance is an unrecognized bridge between modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. With North's generative paradigm, we can examine the movements together in new ways. (American Literature)

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The Dialect of Modernism describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Revolting against the standard language, modernists reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers. At the same time, African-American writers struggled to free themselves from dialect as it had been rendered by white dialect writers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195122917
• ISBN 13: 9780195122916
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270