Accented America The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism |
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| Author:
| Miller, Joshua L. |
| Series title: | Modernist Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-533700-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.99 |
Book Description:
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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 that U.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.
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 that U.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.