Negro Dialect in Eighteenth-Century American Drama
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8728664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Walser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 269-269 |
| Publication date | 1955-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/453562 |
| OpenAlex | W2326307220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
ALTHOUGH it is now known that the most abundant fund of early Negro LAdialect, limited as it is, can be found in the American drama of the eighteenth century, there has surprisingly been no attempt to investigate it play by play. As a result, the broadly general impression persists that the written language of the American Negro is a product of the local-color movement of the next century. Yet as early as 1721 Cotton Mather had recorded three words of dialect: grandy-many, cutty-skin, and sicky sick.' And about 1782 Benjamin Franklin inserted four or five lines of Negro dialect into his well-known 'Information to Those Who Would Remove to America.' In the
Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Literature · Movement (music · Theater, Performance, and Music History · History
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2017 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |