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 across traditional
boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity. The dawn of the modernist
era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated
an experimental practice rooted in the language of the streets.
Emerging alongside more recognized strands of literary modernism,
the vernacular modernism these writers exhibited lays bare the
aesthetic experiments inherent in American working-class and ethnic
language, forging an alternative pathway for American modernist
practice. Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of
popular genres-from Gertrude Stein and Williams 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.
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