Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
| Author(s): | Gates, Henry Louis |
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| Subjects: | American literature--African American authors--History and criticism African Americans in literature Slavery in literature Race awareness in literature |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1987 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Notes: | LCCN: 86021782 ISBN: 019503564X Bibliography: p. 277-296 Includes index Contents: Theory and the Black tradition -- Phillis Wheatley and the African muse -- Rhetorical strategies in Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- Frederick Douglass and the language of the self -- Parallel texts : fact and fiction in 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 |
| Physical Description: | xxxii, 311 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 14187858 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 019503564X |