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

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages) 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 Summary "Dialect and Dichotomy introduces and critiques canonical works in literary dialect analysis and covers recent, innovative applications of linguistic analysis to representations of African American dialect in American literature. It also proposes theoretical principles and specific methods that can be implemented in order to analyze literary dialect for either linguistic or literary purposes, or both. Finally, the proposed methods are applied in four original analyses of African American speech as represented in major works of fiction of the American South - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charles W. Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Dialect literature, American -- History and criticism English language -- Spoken English -- United States English language -- Dialects -- United States. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Languages. Black English in literature. Americanisms in literature. Speech in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Languages American literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- White authors Americanisms in literature Black English in literature Dialect literature, American English language -- Dialects English language -- Spoken English Speech in literature Southern States United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780817380151 0817380159 9780817313999 0817313990 0817354239 9780817354237

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