NP Ebonics

[Richard Romeo]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Malign:
> >I find the arguments for
> >Black grammar weak, its implementation and practice
> >destructive.  
> 
doug wrote:
> I'm glad that some fine African-American writers
> choose not to believe this. _Their Eyes Were
> Watching
> God_ by Zora Neale Hurston, a novel I recently read,
> is a good example of the power of this language, its
> beauty and  creativity (it also offers hurricane
> scenes that are ineresting to read alongside "The
> Small Rain"). The novels of Amos Tutuola -- which
> I've
> recommended here several times -- also testify to
> the
> power of non-standard English. 
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doug--malign is talking about grammar, not the
artistic usage of language, black or otherwise. W/r/t
art, it goes both ways--There have been AA writers,
like Leon Forrest, who have questioned why schools run
by all white administrations in the 50s thought that
black kids didn't need to learn about Shakespeare,
e.g.

Rich

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