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" Figures in Black : "
Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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BL
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623487
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| Main Entry
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Gates, Henry Louis,Jr
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Figures in Black : : words, signs, and the "racial" self /\ Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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xxxii, 311 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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019503564X
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: 9780195035643
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: 0195060741
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: 9780195060744
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers
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Wheatley, Phillis,1753-1784
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Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895
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Toomer, Jean,1894-1967-- Criticism and interpretation
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American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism
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African Americans-- Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature
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Slavery in literature
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Race in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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810/.9/896073
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PS153.N5G27 1987
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