The Morality of Orality: Grace Paley's Stories by Perry, Ruth

“…According to Leo Marx, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain were the earliest practitioners of the American vernacular; their narrators spoke not English but American, affirming their particular regionality against the faceless gentility of the east coast or of Europe, and the democratic equality of all men against the hierarchies of race and class. …”
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