Publications

Publication details [#37563]

Wallace Holton, Sylvia. 1984. Down home and uptown: The representation of black speech in American fiction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ix + 214 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | fiction2 | literary language

Language as a subject

English, Black

Annotation

This book deals with the origins of black English dialect, its use in American fiction and its potential as autonomous literary language.

Reviewed by

Simmons, Margaret N. 1985. Review of $Down home and uptown: The representation of black speech in American fiction.