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Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech
- Title
- Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / Lisa Cohen Minnick.
- Author
- Minnick, Lisa Cohen.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xxi, 194 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- African Americans in literature
- Dialect literature, American > History and criticism
- Speech in literature
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- Black English in literature
- English language > Spoken English > United States
- English language > Dialects > United States
- African Americans > Languages
- Americanisms in literature
- American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
- American literature > White authors > History and criticism
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
- Contents
- A Brief History of American literary dialect -- Linguists, literary critics, and literary dialect -- Methodology -- Articulating Jim: language and characterization in Huckleberry Finn -- "A high, holy purpose": dialect in Charles W. Chesnutt's conjure tales -- Representations of speech and attitudes about race in the sound and the fury -- Community in conflict: saying and doing in their eyes were watching god.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-1220
- ISBN
- 0817313990 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004000606
- OCLC
- 54046857
- Author
- Minnick, Lisa Cohen.
- Title
- Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / Lisa Cohen Minnick.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-1220