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Article: TWAIN'S LIFE ELICITS AS MUCH IRONY AS "HUCK" EMPLOYED.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1997
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Byline: STEVE COURTNEY THE HARTFORD COURANT
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture
SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN
Oxford University Press. 264 pp. $25.
Despite what you may believe about the teaching of ebonics, it turns out there is a Black English, with elements descended from West African languages, and one knowledgeable commentator on this is Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor of American Studies at the University of Texas.
In Is Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices (1993), Fishkin provided a fascinating essay on Twain's discovery of the richness of this language and ...