Date:  Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:55:46 -0600
From:  Cynthia Bernstein <bernscy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Query

A couple essays in _Language Variety in the South Revisited_ (coming out
in a couple months from The University of Alabama Press) concern literary
representations of AAE. In "An Early Representation of African-American
English," Marianne Cooley (Univ. of Houston) discusses features of AAE
represented in productions of _The Padlock_ in the late 18th and early
19th centuries. Katherine Wyly Mille (U of North Carolina, Greensboro)
writes about Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah.
Cynthia Bernstein

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Joseph C. Salmons wrote:

> A grad student in our department (Cordelia Scharpf) is starting to work on
> some fiction written here and abroad in German by Mathilde Franziska Anneke,
> an abolitionist and early feminist leader. Much of the work deals with
> slavery. Anneke's representation of African-American speech owes much to
> English literary works of the time, but contains other elements as well.
> Some of these are Anglicisms, some stereotypical foreign talk and so on.
>
> Can anybody recommend good recent work on the representation of African-
> American speech in 19th c. literature? Has anything at all been done on
> this topic using literature in languages other than English?
>
> Thanks,
> joe salmons
> jsalmons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]facstaff.wisc.edu 
>