The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism by Brooks E. Hefner

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

Brooks E. Hefner

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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 ac...

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