The Dialect of New Negro Literature

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationA Companion to African American Literature
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages169-184
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9781405188623
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 30 2010
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Chesnutt and Dunbar - two African American contemporaries capitalizing on sales of literary dialect
  • Dunbar's dialect poems - protesting against minstrel realism
  • Mars Jeems Nightmare - one of the seven stories written by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Matthews's condemnation of the traditional Negro in dialect - reflecting her concern with the dilemma of racial uplift ideologues in American culture
  • New Negro literature - unpalatable to mainstream literary critics
  • The dialect of New Negro Literature

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