Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self, Henry Louis Gates, Jr

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Label

Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self, Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Link

• https://archive.org/details/figuresinblackwo00gate
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2727873M
• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/86021782-d.html

Title remainder

words, signs, and the "racial" self

Statement of responsibility

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Instantiates

• Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 1987

Note

Includes index

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. 277-296

Contents

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

Extent

1 online resource (xxxii, 311 pages

Form of item

online

Other physical details

illustrations)

Record ID

figuresinblackwo00gate

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)1034663295