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Sylvia Wallace Holton, Down home and uptown: The representation of black speech in American fiction. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 214.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Margaret N. Simmons
Margaret N. Simmons
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Department of English, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
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Book Review
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Language in Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 398 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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