Accented America: the cultural politics of multilingual modernism

Abstract

SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD INTRODUCTION: EVERY KIND OF MIXING 1. Reinventing vox Americana LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY MENCKEN AND CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY CONTEMPORARY AS STANDARD VERNACULAR 2. Documenting American STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED 3. Foreignizing english MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL ENGLISH MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A. LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND 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?: POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE RETURN OF DEPRESSED 6. Spanglicizing Modernism U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND: PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?: BULOSAN'S AMERICA IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION CONCLUSION: SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE