Accented America: the cultural politics of multilingual modernism

Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim thatU.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English. This perspective presents U.S. literary works as playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics, thereby rewiring both narrative form and national identity. INDICE: Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: 'every kind of mixing'; 1.Reinventing vox Americana; Language, Hygiene, and National Security; Mencken and the Cultural Work of Polemical Philology; Contemporary 'American' as Standard Vernacular; 2. Documenting 'American'; 'A Standardization Not Imposed But Voluntarily Accepted'; 3. Foreignizing 'english'; The Making of Americans' Speech: Stein's Aural 'english'; Multilingual Fusion and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Expression: Dos Passos's U.S.A.; Locutions of Dislocation and the PoliticalUses of Despair; 4. Vernacularizing Silence; 'Flesh of their Language'; 'BeenShapin Words T Fit M Soul': Toomer's Cane; 5. Translating 'Englitch'; 'Kent'cha Tuck Englitch?': Linguistic Dissonance in Call It Sleep; 'The Purpose of Jewish Life is Cultural, is it not?': The Politics of Trilling's Style; The Return of the Depressed; 6. Spanglicizing Modernism; U.S. Empire and Imposed Syntax; 'Born a Foreigner in his Native Land': Paredes and Binational Speech; 'Citizenship, then, is the basis of all this misunderstanding?': Bulosan's America;Idioms of Annexation; Conclusion: 'say something american if you dare'

• ISBN: 978-0-19-533700-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés