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  1. Figures in Black
    Words, Signs, and the Racial Self
    Author: Gates, Henry Louis
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Cary

    For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their... more

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    For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact. In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of thetext--Gates advocates the use of a close, m

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780195060744
    Subjects: African Americans in literature; American literature ; African American authors ; History and criticism; Race awareness in literature; Slavery in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (348 p)
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    ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Literary Theory and the Black Tradition""; ""The Literature of the Slave""; ""2 Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro""; ""3 Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself""; ""4 Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self""; ""5 Parallel Discursive Universes: Fictions of the Self in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig""; ""Black Structures of Feeling""; ""6 Dis and Dat: Dialect and the Descent""; ""7 The Same Difference: Reading Jean Toomer, 1923�1983""

    ""8 Songs of a Racial Self: On Sterling A. Brown""""9 The ""Blackness of Blackness"": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
  2. Figures in Black
    Words, Signs, and the Racial Self
    Author: Gates, Henry Louis
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Cary

    For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their... more

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    For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact. In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of thetext--Gates advocates the use of a close, m

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780195060744
    Subjects: African Americans in literature; American literature ; African American authors ; History and criticism; Race awareness in literature; Slavery in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (348 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Literary Theory and the Black Tradition""; ""The Literature of the Slave""; ""2 Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro""; ""3 Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself""; ""4 Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self""; ""5 Parallel Discursive Universes: Fictions of the Self in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig""; ""Black Structures of Feeling""; ""6 Dis and Dat: Dialect and the Descent""; ""7 The Same Difference: Reading Jean Toomer, 1923�1983""

    ""8 Songs of a Racial Self: On Sterling A. Brown""""9 The ""Blackness of Blackness"": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""