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Miller, Joshua Leon.

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Lingual politics: The syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919--1948 (H. L. Mencken).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lingual politics: The syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919--1948 (H. L. Mencken)./
Author:	Miller, Joshua Leon.
Description:	329 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-02, Section: A, page: 0575.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-02A.
Subject:	Language, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3005760
ISBN:	0493153152

Lingual politics: The syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919--1948 (H. L. Mencken).
Miller, Joshua Leon.

Lingual politics: The syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919--1948 (H. L. Mencken). - 329 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-02, Section: A, page: 0575.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2001.

Language issues rose to unprecedented prominence in the United States during the interwar era. “English-Only” nativist nationalism during and after World War I attempted to define U.S. identity in terms of language; Americans, according to this logic, were those who spoke “American.” Arguments on behalf of monolingual national identity concealed both racist and nationalist ideologies by replacing racial and ethnic terms with linguistic categories. In response, a wide range of multilingual and multidialect literatures sprang up during the 1920s and 30s to counter the conservative equation of “standard” U.S. English with a mythic racial whiteness. The struggle between monolingual and multilingual modernists opened a wide debate over the contours of U.S. cultural citizenship, the role(s) of literary critics as mediators of culture, and literary modernism itself.

ISBN: 0493153152Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018098
Language, Modern.

Lingual politics: The syncopated accents of multilingual modernism, 1919--1948 (H. L. Mencken).
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520 $a The English-Only movements and multilingual modernism need to be viewed in dialectical opposition. Interpreting only one of these conjoined trends is unlikely to convey the stakes of this conflict. “Lingual Politics” provides a genealogy of early-twentieth-century monolingualism through an examination of H. L. Mencken's enormously popular book, <italic>The American Language</italic>, which first appeared in 1919. The notion of a rigorously structured national language seized the imagination of the American public during the interwar era. This philological frenzy passed into academia with the rise of linguistics in the 1920s. New journals, textbooks, university departments and programs, grammar manuals, linguistic societies, conferences, and other projects seeking to codify U.S. English during this period sprang up throughout the nation's universities. One of the results of this feverish campaign was that by the 1940s, the status of U.S. English was largely unquestioned, within academia and without.
520 $a In response to the construction of U.S. English as a national “standard” for cultural citizenship, multilingual and multidialect authors theorized trans-ethnic alliances among African-Americans, Jews, Asian Americans, and Latinos. The remarkable flourishing of multilingual literature between the world wars challenged the fictive construction of U.S. English. Authors such as Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Roth, Americo Paredes, and Carlos Bulosan invented new narrative idioms that expanded the formal aesthetics of modernism to capture the uncomfortable, self-conscious, syncopated beats of multilingual vernacular modernism.
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