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Author Gates, Henry Louis.

Title Figures in black [electronic resource] : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c1987.

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Description xxxii, 311 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0195060741
019503564X

 
    
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