Gates, Henry Louis.
Figures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self / [electronic resource] : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Oxford University Press, c1987. - xxxii, 311 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literary theory and the Black tradition -- Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro -- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an 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 -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown -- The blackness of Blackness.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / G27 1987eb
Figures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self / [electronic resource] : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - New York : Oxford University Press, c1987. - xxxii, 311 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literary theory and the Black tradition -- Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro -- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an 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 -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown -- The blackness of Blackness.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / G27 1987eb