Figures in Black : [electronic resource] words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Description: xxxii, 311 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 019503564X (alk. paper)
- 9780195035643 (alk. paper)
- 0195060741 (pbk)
- 9780195060744 (pbk)
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Intellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Race in literature
- English literature By Black persons
- United States
- 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
- 810/.9/896073 19
- 813/.54/09896073 19
- PS153.N5 G27 1987
- 17.82
Bibliography: p. 277-296.
Includes index.
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.
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