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Author:   Joshua L. Miller (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan, Durham, NC)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780195337006

ISBN 10:   019533700
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Series Editors' Foreword Introduction: ""every kind of mixing"" Chapter One: Reinventing vox Americana Language, Hygiene, and National Security Mencken and the Cultural Work of Polemical Philology Contemporary ""American"" as Standard Vernacular Chapter Two: Documenting ""American"" ""A Standardization Not Imposed But Voluntarily Accepted"" Chapter Three: 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 Political Uses of Despair Chapter Four: Vernacularizing Silence ""Flesh of their Language"" ""Been Shapin Words T Fit M Soul"": Toomer's Cane Chapter Five: 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 Chapter Six: 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"""

Reviews

<br> Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating. --Werner Sollors, author of Ethnic Modernism<p><br> Accented America makes a brilliant case for the multilingual dimension of American modernist writing. By focusing on how authors imagined, negotiated, translated and represented the languages that shaped their worlds, Miller has greatly enriched ongoing debates about ethnicity, race and class in modernist fiction. He has demonstrated that attention to linguistic policies, strategies, and voices brings poetics and politics into sharper focus. --Hana Wirth-Nesher, author of

<br> Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating. --Werner Sollors, author of Ethnic Modernism<br> Accented America makes a brilliant case for the multilingual dimension of American modernist writing. By focusing on how authors imagined, negotiated, translated and represented the languages that shaped their worlds, Miller has greatly enriched ongoing debates about ethnicity, race and class in modernist fiction. He has demonstrated that attention to linguistic policies, strategies, and voices brings poetics and politics into sharper focus. --Hana Wirth-Nesher, author of Cal

Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating. --Werner Sollors, author of Ethnic Modernism Accented America makes a brilliant case for the multilingual dimension of American modernist writing. By focusing on how authors imagined, negotiated, translated and represented the languages that shaped their worlds, Miller has greatly enriched ongoing debates about ethnicity, race and class in modernist fiction. He has demonstrated that attention to linguistic policies, strategies, and voices brings poetics and politics into sharper focus. --Hana Wirth-Nesher, author of Call It English A remarkable piece of scholarly work. It is a dense book that will dazzle its readers with its acute literary analyses...Accented America deserves to be unanimously praised as an outstanding contribution to the understanding of American modernism and language diversity. --Linguist List

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Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

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