Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan where he teaches courses in twentieth-century U.S. literature and visual culture. He has written broadly on language politics, transnational modernism, and photography. He is currently at work on a book on twentieth-century photo-text collaborations and a collection of essays on translation, new media, global English, and cultural critique.

Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating.

• SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: "EVERY KIND OF MIXING"; LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY; MENCKEN AND THE CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY; CONTEMPORARY "AMERICAN" AS STANDARD VERNACULAR; "A STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED"; THE MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL "ENGLISH"; MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A; LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USES OF DESPAIR; "FLESH OF THEIR LANGUAGE"; "BEEN SHAPIN WORDS T FIT M SOUL": TOOMER'S CANE; "KENT'CHA TUCK ENGLITCH?": LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE IN CALL IT SLEEP; "THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH LIFE IS CULTURAL, IS IT NOT?": THE POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE; THE RETURN OF THE DEPRESSED; U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX; "BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND": PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH; "CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS THE BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?": BULOSAN'S AMERICA; IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION; CONCLUSION: "SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE"

Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan where he teaches courses in twentieth-century U.S. literature and visual culture. He has written broadly on language politics, transnational modernism, and photography. He is currently at work on a book on twentieth-century photo-text collaborations and a collection of essays on translation, new media, global English, and cultural critique.

Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating.

• SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: "EVERY KIND OF MIXING"; LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY; MENCKEN AND THE CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY; CONTEMPORARY "AMERICAN" AS STANDARD VERNACULAR; "A STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED"; THE MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL "ENGLISH"; MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A; LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USES OF DESPAIR; "FLESH OF THEIR LANGUAGE"; "BEEN SHAPIN WORDS T FIT M SOUL": TOOMER'S CANE; "KENT'CHA TUCK ENGLITCH?": LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE IN CALL IT SLEEP; "THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH LIFE IS CULTURAL, IS IT NOT?": THE POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE; THE RETURN OF THE DEPRESSED; U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX; "BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND": PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH; "CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS THE BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?": BULOSAN'S AMERICA; IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION; CONCLUSION: "SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE"

Joshua L. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan where he teaches courses in twentieth-century U.S. literature and visual culture. He has written broadly on language politics, transnational modernism, and photography. He is currently at work on a book on twentieth-century photo-text collaborations and a collection of essays on translation, new media, global English, and cultural critique.

Joining such works as Hana Wirth-Nesher's Call It English and Lawrence Rosenwald's Multilingual America, Joshua Miller's Accented America offers compelling readings of major Anglophone writers against the background of what Miller calls 'the genealogy of monolingualism' and the emergence of a vox Americana in a multilingual country in the period from 1898 to 1945. Readers interested in notions of 'the American language' will find Accented America fascinating.

• SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: "EVERY KIND OF MIXING"; LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY; MENCKEN AND THE CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY; CONTEMPORARY "AMERICAN" AS STANDARD VERNACULAR; "A STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED"; THE MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL "ENGLISH"; MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A; LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USES OF DESPAIR; "FLESH OF THEIR LANGUAGE"; "BEEN SHAPIN WORDS T FIT M SOUL": TOOMER'S CANE; "KENT'CHA TUCK ENGLITCH?": LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE IN CALL IT SLEEP; "THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH LIFE IS CULTURAL, IS IT NOT?": THE POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE; THE RETURN OF THE DEPRESSED; U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX; "BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND": PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH; "CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS THE BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?": BULOSAN'S AMERICA; IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION; CONCLUSION: "SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE"