03028nam 2200625Ia 450 991082486170332120200520144314.00-19-972917-41-280-52425-19786610524259(CKB)1000000000521411(EBL)271467(OCoLC)870243384(SSID)ssj0000279474(PQKBManifestationID)11223272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279474(PQKBWorkID)10267944(PQKB)10800167(MiAaPQ)EBC271467(Au-PeEL)EBL271467(CaPaEBR)ebr10142211(CaONFJC)MIL52425(EXLCZ)99100000000052141119860820d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFigures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self /Henry Louis Gates, Jr1st ed.New York Oxford University Pressc19871 online resource (348 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506074-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact. In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 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--Gates advocates the use of a close, mAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literatureSlavery in literatureRace awareness in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Slavery in literature.Race awareness in literature.810.9Gates Henry Louis243500MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824861703321Figures in black4072056UNINA