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.


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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

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