Dialect and dichotomy literary representations of African American speech
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- ISBN: 9780817380151 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0817380159 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0817313990 (cased)
- ISBN: 9780817354237 (pbk.)
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1 online resource (xxi, 194 p.) - Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
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General Note: | Multi-User Multi-User. OldControl:muse9780817380151 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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