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Author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Title Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 G27 1987    Available  ---
Description xxxii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 277-296.
Note Includes index.
Contents Literary theory and the black tradition -- The literature of the slave. Phillis Wheatley and the nature of the negro -- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, and American slave. Written by himself -- Frederick Douglass and the language of the self -- Parallel discursive universes: Fictions of the self in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig -- Black structures of feeling. Dis and dat: Dialect and the descent -- The same difference: Reading Jean Toomer, 1923-1983 -- Songs of a racial self: On Sterling A. Brown -- The "blackness of blackness": A critique of the sign and the signifying monkey.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Indexed Term English literature By Black persons
United States
Subject Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Conscience de race dans la littérature.
Negers.
Literatuur.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Semiotiek.
Other Form: Online version: Gates, Henry Louis. Figures in Black. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987 (OCoLC)572067897
ISBN 019503564X alkaline paper
9780195035643 alkaline paper
0195060741 paperback
9780195060744 paperback

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