Accented America : the cultural politics of multilingual modernism
Miller, JoshuaAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
This text is a sweeping study of US literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-only nationalism: the political claim that US citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text is a sweeping study of US literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-only nationalism: the political claim that US citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Multilingualism and literature
Americanisms in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature