Holmes, David Glen.

Revisiting racialized voice : African American ethos in language and literature / [electronic resource] David G. Holmes. - 1 online resource (146 pages)

Paperback edition 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122) and index.

The color of literacy : race, self, and the public ethos -- From reading race to race as a way of reading -- Chesnutt's reconstruction of race and dialect -- Of color and culture : Du Bois's evolving perspectives on race -- "Reading my words but not my mind" : Hurston's ironic voice -- The rhetoric of Black voice : implications for composition pedagogy.

9780809387595 (e-book)


African Americans--Languages.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
Dialect literature, American--History and criticism.
African Americans--Education.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Black English.


Electronic books.

PE3102.N42 / H65 2004

810.9/896073