Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.