Original Query
From: IN%"tlc@nevada.edu" "THOMAS L CLARK"
Subj: Dialect and eye-dialect in AMLITHello List,
While in Israel this summer conducting seminars on variation in American English, I will (at the request of my hosts) give a couple of talks on the use of dialect in American Literature.
I have the usual talk about _Huckleberry Finn_, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Edward H#$%#...
I am soliciting some recommendations for short stories or sections of novels of more recent vintage: something that will demonstrate African American Vernacular English (we used to call it BEV), code-shifting in Spanish English (diglossia, perhaps), and some deomonstrations of regional dialects. Thank you for any suggestions you might have.
Cheers,
Thomas L. Clark
English Linguistics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89121-5011
tlc@nevada.edu
Bibliography:
|
1.
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima. Berkeley: Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol, 1975.
2.
Bambara, Toni Cade. The Black Woman; an
3.
Castillo, Ana. So Far From God. New York:
4.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
5.
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek. New
6.
Eggleston, Edward. The Hoosier School-master. New 7. Gaines, Ernest. Bloodline. New York: Norton, 1976.
8.
Granta Book of the American Short Story. New
9.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk: The Selected
10.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were
11.
Mathiessen, Peter. Far Tortuga. New York:
12.
Mowry, Jess. Way Past Cool. New York: Harper,
13.
Reed, Ishmael. Flight to California. New York: Random
| 14.
Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo. New York: Atheneum, 1989.
15.
Soto, Gary. A Summer Life. Hanover, NH:
16
Soto, Gary. Living up the Street. San Francisco:
17.
Thomas, Piri. Down these Mean Streets. New
18.
TuSmith, Bonnie. All My Relatives. Ann Arbor:
19.
Viramontes, Maria. The Moths and Other
20.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York:
21.
Walker, Alice. You Can't Keep a Good Woman
22.
Youngblood, Shay. The Big Mama Stories. Ithaca,
|
Return to Collaborative Bibliographies Topics Page
