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The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

by Brooks E. Hefner (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

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Synopsis

From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism - one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 29 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 0813940400
ISBN 13: 9780813940403