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Tables of Contents for The Dialect of Modernism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PART I Against the Standard
3
34
1. Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and the Modernist Rebellion
3
34
PART II The Dialect of the Expatriate
37
90
2. The Nigger of the "Narcissus" as a Preface to Modernism
37
22
3. Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration
59
18
4. Old Possum and Brer Rabbit: Pound and Eliot's Racial Masquerade
77
23
5. Quashie to Buccra: The Linguistic Expatriation of Claude McKay
100
27
PART III Plain American
127
70
6. Race, the American Language, and the Americanist Avant-Garde
127
20
7. Two Strangers in the American Language: William Carlos Williams and Jean Toomer
147
28
8. "Characteristics of Negro Expression": Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro Anthology
175
22
Notes
197
48
Index
245