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What is your opinion on the dialect found in "Sweat"? Is it distracting? Rich culturally?

Awfully confusing?

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Cuturally

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Her use of dialect establishes the geographic and cultural specificity of the story. “Sweat” is not generic but distinctly a story about the lives of Black men and women in rural Florida in this time period. Much of the story is told through dialogue; in doing so, Hurston captures the rhythm of Southern Black speech, imbuing the story with life and marking the characters as fully realized people belonging to a robust culture.

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