“…The Help takes its place in a long American tradition of white writers’ representations of African‐American speech, a tradition that has been described as a “richly conflicted history of appropriating and reworking African‐American folk forms in American comedy and literature” (Soper 1084–85). Situated within the tradition are authors such as Joel Chandler Harris (best known for the Uncle Remus stories), Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Margaret Mitchell.…”