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Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres--from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska--employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.

Americanisms in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- American literature --- History and criticism.

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Applies linguistics methods for a richer understanding of literary texts and spoken language. Dialect and Dichotomy outlines the history of dialect writing in English and its influence on linguistic variation. It also surveys American dialect writing and its relationship to literary, linguistic, political, and cultural trends, with emphasis on African American voices in literature. Furthermore, this book introduces and critiques canonical works in literary dialect analysis and covers recent, innovative applications of linguistic analysis of literature. Nex

Speech in literature. --- Americanisms in literature. --- Black English in literature. --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- English language --- Dialect literature, American --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American intellectuals --- American dialect literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Languages. --- Intellectual life. --- Dialects --- Spoken English --- History and criticism. --- White authors --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Southern States --- 20th century --- Dialect literature [American ] --- United States --- Intellectual life --- African Americans in literature --- Language --- Black English in literature --- Americanisms in literature --- Speech in literature --- Germanic languages