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Author Minnick, Lisa Cohen.

Title Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / Lisa Cohen Minnick.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Southern States.
American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- White authors.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Dialect literature, American -- History and criticism.
Dialect literature, American.
English language -- Spoken English -- United States.
English language -- Spoken English.
United States.
English language -- Dialects -- United States.
English language -- Dialects.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Languages.
African Americans -- Languages.
Black English in literature.
Black English in literature.
Americanisms in literature.
Americanisms in literature.
Speech in literature.
Speech in literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Minnick, Lisa Cohen. Dialect and dichotomy. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 0817313990 9780817313999 (DLC) 2004000606 (OCoLC)54046857
ISBN 9780817380151 (electronic book)
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9780817313999 (electronic book)
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9780817354237
0817313990 (cased)
9780817354237 (paperback)