The Literate and the Literary: African Americans as Writers and Readers-1830-1940  

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Heath, Shirley Brice ; McHenry, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 11 no. 4 (Oct. 1994), page 419-444.
Fulltext: Written Communication-1994-McHENRY-419-44.pdf (2.83MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/WRC/11 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Orality has been a feature repeatedly offered to typify African American language habits, Through anthropological studies of contemporary communities as well as literary portrayals and celebrations of cultural heroes such as preachers and political orators, the strong oral traditions of African Americans have figured prominently in discussions of the contexts of their literary works, This article argues for a balance of this image by laying out historical evidence on the literate values and habits of African Americans since the early 1800s, Literary journals, the Black press, literary writers, and literary societies, especially those of women, between 1830 and 1940 highly valued joint reading groups, creative writing efforts, and the role of literature in the lives of African Americans, Considerable work remains to restore accuracy and cross-class representation of African Americans in English studies, so as to resist tendencies to deny variation in the language habits and values of groups included in multicultural literature.

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