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Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America Paperback - 1999
by Gavin Jones
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"[Jones] links obscure forays into dialectology with familiar canonical works of literature in surprising and innovative ways. He also has some astute insights into the politics of language in this countrya topic as current now as it was during the period about which he writes."Shelly Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin"
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- Title Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America
- Author Gavin Jones
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st printing
- Pages 299
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-10-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520214217 / 0520214218
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 5.98 x 0.72 in (22.76 x 15.19 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans in literature, Race in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-40628
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.935
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- Library Journal, 04/01/2000, Page 0
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