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

Author(s)

• Gates, Henry Louis

Bibliographic Information

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

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Oxford University Press, 1987

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-296) and index

Contents of Works

• 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, 1923-1982
• Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown
• The blackness of Blackness : a critique on the sign and the Signifying Monkey

Details

• NCID: BA01100310
• ISBN:
  • 019503564X
• LCCN: 86021782
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxii, 311 p., [4] p. of plates
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS153.N5
  • DC19 : 810/.9/896073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans in literature
  • LCSH : Slavery and slaves in literature
  • LCSH : Race awareness in literature