Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self - Softcover

Gates, Henry Louis Jr.

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ISBN 10: 0195060741 ISBN 13: 9780195060744

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1989

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"Of the seminal importance of Figures in Black there can be no doubt."--American Literature

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of The Signifying Monkey, Loose Canons, and Colored People; general editor of The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; and general editor of The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute series.

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This insightful book, written by a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism- the language of the text--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. advocates the use of a close, methodical analysis of language, made possible by modern literary theory.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195060741
• ISBN 13: 9780195060744
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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