Wees Gonna Tell It Like We Know It Tuh Be: Coded Language in the Works of Julia Peterkin and Gloria Naylor

Wees Gonna Tell It Like We Know It Tuh Be: Coded Language in the Works of Julia Peterkin and Gloria Naylor

This study employs African American literary criticism and critical discourse analysis to evaluate Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day (1988). These women write stories of African American life on the Sea Islands through different prisms that evoke cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hills, Crystal Margie
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2008
Subjects:
Scarlet Sister Mary
African American Literature
Mama Day
Gloria Naylor
Julia Peterkin
Sea Islands
Geechee
Gullah
Critical Discourse Analysis
Dialect
Southern Literature
English Language and Literature
Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/45
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=english_theses

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http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/45
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=english_theses

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