The Dialect of Modernism Michael North (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles)

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This text describes the 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.

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The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature by Michael North (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles)

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.

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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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9780195122916

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0195122917

Title

The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature by Michael North (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles)

Author

Michael North (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles)

Series

Race and American Culture

Condition

Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1998-08-06

Number of pages

260

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