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.
Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan where he teaches courses in twentieth-century U.S. literature and visual culture. He has written broadly on language politics, transnational modernism, and photography. He is currently at work on a book on twentieth-century photo-text collaborations and a collection of essays on translation, new media, global English, and cultural critique.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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 Political Uses of Despair * 4.: Vernacularizing Silence * "Flesh of their Language" * "Been Shapin 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"
* 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 Political Uses of Despair * 4.: Vernacularizing Silence * "Flesh of their Language" * "Been Shapin 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"
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