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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c1987.Description: xxxii, 311 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 G27 1987eb
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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.
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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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