Lisa Cohen Minnick. Dialect and dichotomy. Literary representations of African American speech. Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Hardcover. $39.95 To order electronically, visit. www.uapress.ua.edu

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Published online: 9 November 2006

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Lisa Cohen Minnick. Dialect and dichotomy. Literary representations of African American speech. Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Hardcover. $39.95 To order electronically, visit. www.uapress.ua.edu

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Lisa Cohen Minnick. Dialect and dichotomy. Literary representations of African American speech. Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Hardcover. $39.95 To order electronically, visit. www.uapress.ua.edu