Down Home and Uptown: The Representation of Black Speech in American Fiction

Examining the potential of black English as a literary medium, this book considers the historical origins of black English as an linguistic phenomenon, surveys the ways in which it has been represented and the political implications of those modes of representation, and focuses on the dispute between conservative "Anglicists" and the more radical, black-oriented, "Creolists."Sylvia Wallace Holton is the author of 'Down Home and Uptown: The Representation of Black Speech in American Fiction' with ISBN 9780838631300 and ISBN 0838631304.