Nations of nothing but poetry: modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing

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Choice Reviews Online · 2010 · 47 citations · 0 references

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Introduction Chapter 1 Vernacular Discourse from Major to Minor Chapter 2 The Impossibility of Synthetic Scots or, Hugh MacDiarmid's Nationalist Internationalism Chapter 3 A Dialect Written in the Spelling of the Capital: Basil Bunting Goes Home Chapter 4 Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent: T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite Chapter 5 Transnational Anthems and the Ship of State: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the Politics of Afro-Modernism Epilogue Denationalizing Mina Loy